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 [log in to unmask]
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