Category Archives: Policy Network
Three-D Issue 31: Earning trust “story by story”: Can we believe the media? The role of journalism in the digital age
Allan Leonard FactCheckNI Ulster University – along with the UK press regulatory body, Impress, and the Policy Network of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) – jointly hosted a symposium event at its Belfast campus: “Can we believe the media? The role … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 30: Policy Network report
Phil Ramsey Ulster University So far in 2018 the MeCCSA Policy Network has supported two events. First, the Media Democracy Festival 2018: Faking It, Breaking It, Re-Making It – What’s wrong with our media and how to fix it took … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 28: Time to take sides on impartiality?
Des FreedmanGoldsmiths, University of London If rampant editorialising is in the DNA of the print press, then ‘due impartiality’ – not taking sides in matters of public controversy – is allegedly at the heart of UK broadcasting. Broadcasters themselves are … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 20: Beyond the ivory tower: media policy academics in the public arena
Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster For most of 2012, continuing into 2013, and no doubt beyond, media policy debates and events have been dominated by questions raised by the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the … Continue reading
Policy Network Report, AGM2013
Network meetings and events Policy issues are regularly on the agenda for universities all over the country, particularly in this year of the Leveson Inquiry. Events in 2012 included: Dr Jonathan Hardy’s speech to the Oxford Media Convention on 25 … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 19: Lord Justice Leveson’s Inquiry and the next Communications Act
Damian Tambini London School of Economics Media policy has always been a political minefield, and recent events have done little to defuse the terrain. The Leveson Inquiry has seen that elected politicians face deep conflicts of interest with regard to … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 19: Hunt-Black proposals not in best interests of journalism
This letter was originally published in the Financial Times, 1 November 2012. Several signatories are members of the MeCCSA Policy Network. URL: http://j.mp/Wb7VG5 We are free speech advocates and senior educators of law and journalism students in British universities and … Continue reading
Media policy post-Leveson: opportunities for reshaping media ownership and control at the national, regional and community level
Date: Friday 8 February 2013, Time: 10am – 5pm Venue: Bournemouth University, Executive Business Centre Keynote speakers: Professor James Curran, Goldsmith’s University. Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University. Address by: Natalie Bennett, Leader of Green Party. Call for papers We welcome … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Policy Network Report
Máire Messenger Davies University of Ulster As reported in the last Three-D, media policy issues have been almost constantly in the headlines, and thus also of major concern to many academics; this is particularly due to the phone-hacking story and … Continue reading
Three-D Issue 18: Market fundamentalism and new communications regulation
Damian Tambini London School of Economics Media regulation is one of those things, like puddings, that the British think they do rather well. This helps explain the spasms of introspection that phone hacking and the failure of press self-regulation have … Continue reading