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)
