In a world where people pay attention to journalism because of their beliefs and feelings, why bother with objectivity? Can you have subjective journalism without feeding the fake news frenzy? Does pe...
Richard Sambrook
Richard Sambrook is Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff University, which undertakes postgraduate vocational training. He is a former Director of Global News at the BBC where he worked as a journalist for 30 years as a producer, editor and manager.
He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University where he undertook research into the future of international newsgathering and the place of impartiality and objectivity in the digital world.
The right to disappear digitally in Europe: what are the implications for journalism?
Google and other search engines are subject to European privacy laws, and a 2014 decision gave European Union citizens the "right to disappear." EU citizens can request that search engines purge their...
Recent high profile investigations such as the Panama Papers and the Migrant Files have been developed as collaborations between organisations and across national boundaries. Why are we seeing more of...
The UK's tabloid press have long disliked the EU - with stories focused on bendy bananas, sugar mountains and an unaccountable leadership. How much impact did this coverage have on the country's re...
In a year when a woman is running for the president of the US, a woman has become the editor of The Guardian, and debates about women in business and in the boardroom are top of mind, have we made a...
This session will try to answer the following questions: - What are the main definitions of “terror attack” in the international media? - How can media organisations get ready to react to terr...
We live in a golden age of television, but not of television news. Television entertainment thrives “beyond the box” on an internet that has embraced video and where we see the rise of on-demand...
An average of two journalists are killed every week carrying out their work. Most are local journalists investigating crime and corruption and their killers are seldom found. Ten years ago the news ...
Broadcasters now actively choose handheld video footage from local witnesses over the perfect edits of professionals.Why? Because viewers reckon it feels more real, and therefore more 'true'. It's a...
