Based around the ideas in Ros Atkins' book The Art of Explanation (Wildfire, 2023), this session will explore how, sometimes, we pay more attention to communicating with our audience than we do with...
Ros Atkins
Ros Atkins is Analysis Editor of BBC News and has been a BBC News presenter on radio and TV for twenty years. He's also the creator of the Ros Atkins on... video explainer series and, last year, made a successful return to DJing with a widely-shared drum and bass mix for BBC Radio 6 Music. He is the author of The Art of Explanation (Wildfire, 2023).
Events IJF 2024
In an increasingly polarized world, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni will join Ros Atkins to discuss the importance of independent, unbiased journalism, why diversity in the newsroom is esse...
Transparency is an oft-cited solution to the trust crisis, but what does that mean in practice? Must journalists document all aspects of their work - or does that risk creating journalism products tha...
In a complex media ecosystem, news organizations have a responsibility to not just tell the public what's going on -- but clear up what is true and what isn’t, to put the story in context and to exp...
In an age of information abundance and streaming platforms, some call the concept of public service media into question, but the public doesn’t seem to think so. Throughout the pandemic audiences ha...
Journalists have needed to rethink long-held norms as trust in news media plummets and the public become increasingly divided on issues ranging from public health to voting access and democracy itself...
Around the world only 24% of the people seen, heard or read about in the news are women, and only 19% of subject matter experts sourced in the news are women (Global Media Monitoring Project, 2015 Who...
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