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New report on the state of local news in the UK
BU Trauma and Journalism panel at The Freud Museum, Friday, 27 May, 6.30-8pm, Tickets still available!
‘Trauma and Journalism’
A Panel Discussion on the Role of Trauma
in the Life and Work of Journalists
Venue: The Freud Museum, Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SX
Friday 27 May, 6.30-8pm
Followed by drinks reception, 8-9pm
Tickets:
https://www.freud.org.uk/events/76447/trauma-and-journalism/
This panel event provides insight into the world of journalism and trauma and the role that trauma plays in the life of the journalist, who may encounter highly charged emotional events and distressing images on a regular basis. What coping mechanisms are used when a journalist is confronted with such experiences? What are the costs of succeeding in a career where trauma and its aftermath are experienced and witnessed by those who bring the news to our television screens, newspaper front pages and social media feeds? Drawing on the first hand experiences of senior journalists, this event brings together journalism and psychoanalysis to explore the complex and difficult relationships between trauma and journalism in the late modern world.
Speakers include
Gavin Rees
Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma
Helen Long, Reuters News Editor, Producer and Journalist
in conversation with
Sally Weintrobe, Psychoanalyst
Chair :
Stephen Jukes, Professor of Journalism, Bournemouth University.
Followed by Drinks Reception, 8-9pm.
The event is organised by Bournemouth University
in collaboration with the Freud Museum, the Media and the Inner World research network and Dart Centre Europe.
Speaker Biographies
Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University’s Faculty of Media & Communication, one of the largest of its kind in Europe with an international reputation for combining research, teaching and professional practice. His research focuses on areas of objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on trauma and conflict journalism. He was previously a foreign correspondent and editor at the international news agency Reuters. During a series of overseas postings he covered or oversaw coverage of stories ranging from the ousting of Margaret Thatcher to the fall of the Berlin Wall, two Gulf Wars and September 11. In his final position at Reuters, he was Global Head of News and executive editor for a series of books on the Middle East conflict. He chairs the Dart Centre for Journalism & Trauma in Europe and is a trustee of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
Helen Long is a seasoned Reuters Television journalist with nearly 20 years of experience covering breaking news around the globe. Prior to joining Reuters in 1997, she spent several years studying the socio-economic costs of anti-personnel mines in the world’s heaviest mined countries on behalf of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), a global coalition of civic organizations that succeeded in pushing through the International Mine Ban Treaty in 1997, earning the ICBL and its founding coordinator, Jody Williams, the Nobel Peace Prize. Based in London, Helen is a trade unionist and leads the Reuters NUJ chapel. She is deeply concerned about the effects of trauma on journalists covering conflict and disaster in the field as well as the more recent and pressing issue of vicarious trauma in the newsroom, stemming from the explosive proliferation of graphic user-generated content (UGC). In 2015, she developed new social media guidelines aimed at mitigating the risks of secondary trauma among journalists working with violent imagery and initiated a Peer Support Network, which provides a complementary source of help, advice and information to Reuters journalists and freelancers around the world.
Gavin Rees, a journalist and filmmaker, is the director of Dart Centre Europe. The Dart Centre is a project of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York and is dedicated to promoting ethical and innovative approaches to the coverage of trauma and violence. Gavin is responsible for implementing the Centre’s work across Europe, and runs workshops and discussion groups on trauma awareness, resilience and interviewing skills for working journalists and journalism students in a range of countries around the world. Gavin has also produced business and political news for US, British and Japanese news channels, and has worked on drama and documentary films for the BBC, Channel 4 and independent film companies. As a visiting fellow in the Media School at Bournemouth University, Gavin is involved in academic research on how journalists report on violence, and he is a board member of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies and the UK Psychological Trauma Society.
Sally Weintrobe is a psychoanalyst who writes and talks on how to understand what underlies our widespread disavowal of climate change. She edited and contributed to Engaging with Climate Change (2012). Her current work is on the culture of ‘uncare’, a culture that she argues works to sever our felt caring links with the environment and with each other (see www.sallyweintrobe.com). She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and a founding member of the Climate Psychology Alliance.
Dragons’ Den: Pitch to the Editors
Do you have a science news story worthy of appearing in Nature, The Times or Research Fortnight?
Organisers of the UK Conference of Science Journalists are running a ‘Dragons’ Den: Pitch to the Editors’ session, open to students, recent graduates or scientists with a great story.
This is your chance to stand up in front of top journalists and ‘sell’ your story idea. It can be about any aspect of science, as long as it is suitable for Nature, the Times or Research Fortnight. (Do make sure you research the publications before submitting)!
Successful applicants will pitch their story idea to Helen Pearson (Nature), Ehsan Masood (Research Fortnight) and Hannah Devlin (The Times) in front of a live audience at the conference on Wednesday 18th June in London.
For more information and details of how to apply, visit http://www.ukcsj.org/dragons-den.html. Applications are open until 23rd May.
If you would like to discuss your pitch, email Sally Gates (Research Communications Manager).
Journalism: New Challenges, free eBook published by CJCR
The Centre for Journalism and Communication Research (CJCR) is pleased to announce the publication of Journalism: New Challenges, edited by Karen Fowler-Watt and Stuart Allan.
The free e-book is available to download as a PDF on the CJCR website, where you can also download each chapter as an individual PDF. We have also made the book available via Dropbox (http://j.mp/Journalism-New_Challenges).
Journalism: New Challenges contains 29 engaging chapters prepared by academics and journalists, in addition to an introduction by the co-editors Karen Fowler-Watt and Stuart Allan.
In seeking to identify and critique a range of the most pressing challenges confronting journalism today, this book examines topics such as:
- the role of the journalist in a democratic society, including where questions of truth and free speech are concerned;
- the changing priorities of newspaper, radio, television, magazine, photography, and online news organisations;
- the political, economic and technological pressures on news and editorial independence;
- the impact of digital convergence on the forms and practices of newsgathering and storytelling;
- the dynamics of professionalism, such as the negotiation of impartiality and objectivity in news reports;
- journalists’ relationships with their sources, not least where the ‘spin’ of public relations shapes what’s covered, how and why;
- evolving genres of news reporting, including politics, business, sports, celebrity, documentary, war and peace journalism;
- journalism’s influence on its audiences, from moral panics to the trauma of representing violence and tragedy;
- the globalisation of news, including the role of international news agencies;
- new approaches to investigative reporting in a digital era;
- and the rise of citizen journalism, live-blogging and social media, amongst many others.
The chapters are written in a crisp, accessible style, with a sharp eye to the key ideas, concepts, issues and debates warranting critical attention. Each ends with a set of ‘Challenging Questions’ to explore as you develop your own perspective, as well as a list of ‘Recommended Reading’ to help push the conversation onwards.
May you discover much here that stimulates your thinking and, with luck, prompts you to participate in lively debate about the future of journalism.
Journalism: New Challenges
Edited by: Karen Fowler-Watt and Stuart Allan
Published by: Centre for Journalism & Communication Research, Bournemouth University
ISBN: 978-1-910042-01-4 [paperback]
ISBN: 978-1-910042-00-7 [ebook-PDF]
ISBN: 978-1-910042-02-1 [ebook-epub]
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