Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Meera Selva, Director of the RISJ Journalist Fellowship Programme, discusses attacks on journalists and the media in central and eastern Europe.

Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4

Mia Malan, journalist, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series.

Meera Selva, Director of the Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowship Programme, addresses our closing seminar of the term with a presentation on the media situation in Sri Lanka. Attacks on journalists are – when they happen – shockingly brutal. News coverage tends not to cross socio-economic and ethnic/linguistic divides. Closing down social media in response to national crises invokes the law of unintended consequences.

Bobby Ghosh, editorial board member at Bloomberg Opinion, explains how traditional revenue models in India make it challenging to resist external pressures on reporting – but there is a still way through it.

In this seminar, Helen describes the seductive power of the collective narrative as being one of the most distorting forces in modern political journalism. As she reflects upon her time in political journalism, she goes on to lay out seven sins that political journalists are committing, starting with the teleological view and ending with the view from Versailles.

Inga Thordar, executive editor of CNN Digital International, talks about industry best practice in fact-checking standards, and the idea of telling the truth now constituting activism.

Sue Robinson, Professor of Journalism in UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, explores the relationship between race, power and privilege in American journalism, in this seminar. She relates the account of her own journey as an academic and local journalist fostering trust with marginalised communities. How can we build bridges that enable journalists to amplify the message of those working for social change?

Trevor Kavanagh, political columnist at The Sun, talks us through the evolution of his newspaper’s editorial stance on Brexit over the decades, from the early Common Market to the ERM, ECU and EU referendum.

Mary Ann Sieghart, Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, shares with us anecdotal and statistical evidence in this talk highlighting gender-respect inequality in the newsroom and other settings.