2020 Vision: Forecasts for the year ahead from Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture
Four small words; the future of journalism. What should we expect to see making a dent in our profession over the 12 months ahead?
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US Election
Down the Rabbithole Part Two: Alice meets a White Knight, a Fancy Bear and the (Anti-)Red Queen
There is no doubt that what Greenwald describes as the easy prevalence of anti-Russian stereotyping and paranoia is a groove into which we in the West can easily slip.
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Why the fake news panic matters
Information is the currency of our world. Business, politics, social discourse, international relations and more rest on the assumption of shared, accurate information. But we learned in 2016 how that currency is being debased in an alarming number of ways.
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Down the rabbithole… some passing thoughts on Russia, the Deep State and Julian Assange’s tweets
Earlier this week the US astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson posted the following tweet: 2 + 2 = 4 #1984
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The Decay of Truth?
It was Oscar Wilde who once wrote that ‘life imitates art far more than art imitates life’. He claimed that ‘Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.’
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How should Britain’s broadcasters tackle Fake News?
2016 was the year that news seemed to collapse into Hunter S Thompson’s dystopian vision of television as a “cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs”.
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Trump and the art of Tweeting
Another day, another tweet, another incident. This time Donald Trump, the prolific and seemingly indiscriminate tweeter who just happens to be leader of the free world has damaged diplomatic relations with Australia.
Read moreFox News: Out with the old – in with the old familiar.
The resignation yesterday of Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Fox News in the US, sent shock waves through an American
Read moreThe Trumpification of the US media: why chasing news values distorts politics
Posted by, Stephen Cushion Outside the US, the prospect of Donald Trump being elected president is typically met with a
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