POLIS Papers
Journalism and the Visual Politics of War and Conflict
To read Professor Lilie Chouliaraki's 'Journalism and the Visual Politics of War and Conflict', to appear in Alan S. (2009) "Routledge Companion on News and Journalism", Routledge, London, please click here.
Post-Humanitarianism: Humanitarian Communication beyond a Politics of Pity
To read Professor Lilie Chouliaraki's paper 'Post-Humanitarianism: Humanitarian Communication beyond a Politics of Pity', to appear in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010, please click here
The Great Global Switch Off: International Coverage in UK Public Service Broadcasting
To read 'The Great Global Switch Off: International Coverage in UK Public Service Broadcasting', a new report by Polis Oxfam and the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) please click here.
International Reporting of Suicide
To read Anna Siegel's report about the the POLIS and PCC event, 'Reporting Sucide in the Media' please click here
What is Financial Journalism for? Ethics and Responsibility in a time of Crisis and Change
Source: Dr. Damian Tambini
To read the POLIS report, "What is Financial Journalism for? Ethics and Responsibility ina time of Crisis and Change' by Dr. Damian Tambini from the LSE Media and Communications Department please click here
POLIS Report: Contempt of Court and Media Publicity
Source: Christopher Greenaway
Date: 06 Nov, 2008
To read the POLIS Report of the Forum on Contempt of Court and Media Publicity, click here.
Women and the Media: What do they want?
Source: Tamsyn Dent
To read Tamsyn Dent's paper about the recent POLIS/ Gender Institute seminar on women and the media please click here
BBC Brand Scandal: the full story
Source: Caroline Thompson
Date: 06 Nov, 2008
The BBC's second most senior manager, Caroline Thompson gave the full story of the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross scandal at Polis. Read her speech here.
Hunt: PSBs must be bolder in their vision for our society
Source: Jeremy Hunt MP
To read Jeremy Hunt MP's PSB Broadcasting speech, PSBs Must be Bolder in their Vision of our Society, please click here
Distant Suffering in the Media
Source: Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
To read Professor Lilie Chouliaraki's paper about suffering in the media, addressing the question of how far images and stories of suffering make a difference in our ways of engaging with distant sufferers, and listen to the podcast please click here.
Arts Criticism in the 21st century
Source: Lara Farrar
Read Lara Farrar's POLIS paper on Arts Criticism in the 21st century
Media, Celebrity and Politics
Source: Charlie Beckett
To read Charlie Beckett's POLIS paper on the Media, Celebrity and Politics click here
Women and Crime
Source: Award-winning reporter at ITN’s Channel 4 News.Samira Ahmed
To download the PDF of the POLIS paper on Women and Crime, please click here.
The Media and the McCanns
To download the PDF of the POLIS working paper on the Media and the McCanns, please click here
Public Service in a Digital Age
Intelligence and the Media
Source: Kate Shea-Baird
To download the PDF of the POLIS paper on Intelligence and the Media, click here.
The Inside Story of Zimbabwe
Source: Fatima Manji
To download the PDF of the POLIS paper on The Inside Story of Zimbabwe, click here.
Media and Democracy in Russia
Source: Agnieszka Troszkiewicz
To download the PDF of the POLIS paper on Media and Democracy in Russia, click here.
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