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Professor Adrian Monck is Managing Director and Head of Communications and Media at the World Economic Forum. The Forum is an independent, international organisation incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. He was educated at Oxford University and London Business School and went on to be an award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News, ITN and Sky News. His work at Dunblane and in Bosnia received awards from the Royal Television Society, and on Rwanda won the special report gold medal, and overall festival prize at the New York International Festival. From June 2005, he was head of Journalism and Publishing at the Graduate School of Journalism at City University London, where he still teaches.
Here he discusses whether world journalism is in crisis.
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Suzanne Franks is Director of Research at Kent University’s Centre for Journalism. At the start of her journalism career she worked with the BBC as a researcher on documentaries and then joined the Television Current Affairs department, producing programmes such as Newsnight, Watchdog, The Money Programme and Panorama. In the 1990s she started an independent production company, Sevenday Productions, which was awarded the first outside contract for the televising of Parliament. She was based in Westminster, responsible for all the coverage from the Lords, Commons and committees until 2001. The company also developed a web business specialising in political coverage and was awarded the first webcasting contract from Downing Street.
Here she discusses her thoughts on whether world journalism is in crisis.
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Dr George Nyabuga is an award-winning journalist and acclaimed media trainer. He joined Media Convergence Group as Managing Editor earlier this year and has key responsibilities across the Group's multi-media platforms. Dr Nyabuga holds a PhD in Politics, History and Media and a Masters in Online Journalism. Nyabuga brings wide-ranging hands-on experience as a journalist in Kenya, South Africa and the US. He has taught journalism, media and cultural studies at Worcester and Coventry universities in the United Kingdom. He was a Merit Prize winner at the African Journalists of the Year Awards in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2000 and was in 1997 a Freedom Forum International Journalist-in-Residence Program award winner.
Here he discusses his thoughts at the 'Is Journalism in Crisis?' Conference
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Okoth Fred Mudhai is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Global Media/Communication at Coventry University, UK. He has written research papers and memos on ICT and politics as a member of the IT and Civil Society Network of the IT and International Cooperation Program, US Social Science Research Council (2003-2005). At the Tunis (2005) World Summit on the Information Society, he received a Media Award by Panos London and Global Knowledge Partnership. He was also a category runner-up in the 2007 African Information Society Media Award.
Here he shares his thoughts on whether journalism is in crisis
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An interview with Steve Cropley from AUTOCAR magazine
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An interview with former head of Sky News Nick Pollard
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An interview with Suntalk's Jon Gaunt.
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Professor Bo Cui is from the Zhejiang University of Media and Communication in China. Here she gives a Chinese perspective on the question of whether world journalism is in crisis.
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2009
"History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same." ~Walter Rauschenbusch
...it seems hard to believe to us today that the thought of a personal relationship with God (or as Plato described it, being without a Greek word for religion, Love,Knowledge and Truth), through direct prayer, was as alien for them as, lets say for instance, it would be today for us to ask a person depicted within a photograph, for their own version of (news) events...
These podcasts are notes from Jonathan Worth's blog entitled "New Photographics". By recording them for download, it's the intention that a broader range of people are able to gain access and engage in our community of like-minded learner practitioners. You can find out more from the blog or by following @jdubbyah and @cu_photography on Twitter.
The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.
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2009
.....as part of a structure of dynamic learning methods, it also serves to embed the framework of sustainable practices that are relevant wherever the medium takes us in the future. Right now Twitter enables me to follow the thoughts, processes and debates that other media practitioners are engaging in and from this come to a more thorough and global understanding of the commonalities.
These podcasts are notes from Jonathan Worth's blog entitled "New Photographics". By recording them for download, it's the intention that a broader range of people are able to gain access and engage in our community of like-minded learner practitioners. You can find out more about us from the blog or by following @jdubbyah and @cu_photography on Twitter.
The Photographic Mediations Podcasts are brought to you by the Photography Course in the Department of Media and Communication at Coventry University.
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