Question Time host warns that people could 'come to regret' the advent of the electoral TV debates
Read it all here.
We have discussed this briefly... Are these televised debates a step towards more democratisation or just dumbing down and / or a reduced debate/personality contest?
Friday, 25 March 2011
Friday, 18 March 2011
What is multiculturalism? – video
What is multiculturalism? David Cameron and Angela Merkel have both announced the failure of multiculturalism. The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland and Matthias Matussek of Der Spiegel talk about the implications of their statements
Read and watch the video here.
Read and watch the video here.
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Gaddafi-controlled media wages propaganda war
Libyan rebels portrayed as rats as Gaddafi regime uses blackout of alternative media to step up fight against opposition
Read full story here.
Read full story here.
US spy operation that manipulates social media
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Exclusive: Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Read the story here.
Exclusive: Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Read the story here.
Monday, 14 March 2011
The 2011 Student Media awards have now launched!
Entries open for the Guardian Student Media awards 2011
The student protests that engulfed the streets of London during last year's Guardian Student Media Awards ceremony have since dissipated. But the sense of betrayal and anger that led to them has not.
For that reason, this year's Student Media Awards are likely to attract some of the most spiritedwriting since Andrew Rawnsley and Jonathan Freedland picked up gongs. "In the current climate of cuts to higher education and swathes of politically active students, now more than ever is a great time for student journalism," says Camilla Turner, a student at Oxford University and last year's reporter of the year. "It's really important for students to express their feelings about what's being enforced, do some great journalism and get across the sense of how students still feel." Turner won the award for her exposés of a college expenses scandal, and reports on a student who faked his way into Oxford University. She now edits Cherwell, Oxford's student newspaper, and her plans include applying for a work placement at News International and an internship at the Financial Times.
The annual awards open for their 33rd year today, and the landscape for young journalists has rarely looked more uncertain. Alan Rusbridger, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian and an awards judge, said in November it was a "great time to be a journalist", albeit at a "fantastically insecure moment".
"Journalism is there to be redefined," Rusbridger told last year's winners. "The whole ecosystem of information is there to be reimagined and I can't see any reason why you shouldn't do it."
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The student protests that engulfed the streets of London during last year's Guardian Student Media Awards ceremony have since dissipated. But the sense of betrayal and anger that led to them has not.
For that reason, this year's Student Media Awards are likely to attract some of the most spiritedwriting since Andrew Rawnsley and Jonathan Freedland picked up gongs. "In the current climate of cuts to higher education and swathes of politically active students, now more than ever is a great time for student journalism," says Camilla Turner, a student at Oxford University and last year's reporter of the year. "It's really important for students to express their feelings about what's being enforced, do some great journalism and get across the sense of how students still feel." Turner won the award for her exposés of a college expenses scandal, and reports on a student who faked his way into Oxford University. She now edits Cherwell, Oxford's student newspaper, and her plans include applying for a work placement at News International and an internship at the Financial Times.
The annual awards open for their 33rd year today, and the landscape for young journalists has rarely looked more uncertain. Alan Rusbridger, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian and an awards judge, said in November it was a "great time to be a journalist", albeit at a "fantastically insecure moment".
"Journalism is there to be redefined," Rusbridger told last year's winners. "The whole ecosystem of information is there to be reimagined and I can't see any reason why you shouldn't do it."
Go to the Homepage
Click here to find out more
Monday, 7 March 2011
Year 12/13 Progress Checks by next week (starting 14.3.11)
If you haven't been working hard enough, you have a few days to catch up and try and improve your grade...
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