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[ecrea] What makes good journalism?

Mon Nov 29 20:48:53 GMT 2010



CALL FOR PAPERS

What makes good journalism?

Date: 7 and 8 June 2011
Venue: University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS


The Third Annual Conference of the Department of Journalism at the University Westminster in association with the British Journalism Review.

Our previous conferences examined the problems facing journalism and then possible solutions. These concerns were principally economic; the apparent failure of old business models and the search for new ones to allow quality journalism to continue.

This, our third conference poses the question: What it is we are trying to preserve and encourage?

What is good journalism and where is it to be found? Is it in the institutional practices and professional culture of established news organisations such as the BBC, CNN, and more recently Al-Jazeera; is it in the great national newspapers? Does the future instead reside elsewhere in new developments in online news? Are new technologies setting new standards? Should standards be encouraged or enforced? How will tomorrow?s criteria for ?good? journalism differ from yesterday?s?

A wide range of approaches are encouraged, theoretical, practical, and historical. Topics to be addressed might include (but are not confined to):

   * Public relations and the news agenda
   * The impact of multimedia journalism
   * The challenge of 24 hour news channels
   * The future of original reporting
   * The interplay between commentary and ?facts?
   * Citizen journalism and new sources of information
* The role of the academy a) in training journalists and b) in analysing and theorising on the news media
   * The future of investigative and ?watchdog? journalism
* The role of professional organisations and trades unions in the maintenance of journalistic standards
   * Regulation and self regulation
   * Questions of ethics
   * Does impartiality matter?
PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION

This 1½ day conference will take place on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 June 2011. The fee for registration will be £150 with a concessionary rate of £85 for students, to cover all conference documentation, refreshments and administration costs. Registration will open in March 2011.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS

The deadline for abstracts is Monday 24 January 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 11 February 2011. Abstracts should be 250 words long. They must include the presenter's name, affiliation, email and postal address, together with the title of the paper. Please send abstracts to Helen Cohen at <mailto:(journalism /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>(journalism /at/ westminster.ac.uk)




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