The media provides the resources we all need for the conduct of everyday life.
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Investigative Journalism Seminar
6.30 pm New Academic Building Room 107 10 Feb, 2010
The seminar ‘Tax, Financial Secrecy, and In... read more

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Reporting during War Times
10.30am-12pm Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building 13 Feb, 2010
How the great correspondents of the past managed ... read more

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NGO and photography conference
10.30-5pm Main lecture theatre, London College of Communication 10 Mar, 2010
The Third Frame: visual imagery and the represe... read more

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Polis Summer School Now Open

The course 'International Journalism and Society - The Role of the Media in the Modern World' runs from July 5th for three weeks. read more

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Reporting during War Times

war Three award-winning journalists join a panel at Polis to discuss war journalism

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Polis Paper On Internet And Defamation

LSE_frutiger.jpg%20(2) LSE Law and Polis respond to the UK Ministry of Justice consultation on Defamation and the Internet

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Investigative Journalism Seminar

magnifying_glass ‘Tax, Financial Secrecy, and Investigative Journalism’ is the inaugural seminar of a series focused on the theme

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NGO and photography conference

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Saving Journalism

SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The WorldSuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World by Polis Director, Charlie Beckett is the first detailed manifesto for "Networked Journalism" based on Polis research and debates.

SuperMedia surveys the new media landscape, outlines the crisis facing journalism and the opportunities on offer for a radical new relationship between the media and the public.

"Read it, and act!"
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News

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POLIS is a joint initiative from LSE and the London College of Communication aimed at working journalists, people in public life and students in the UK and around the world. POLIS is the place where journalists and the wider world can examine and discuss the media and its impact on society.

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