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martinscott2010.bsky.social
We won!
newsprof1.bsky.social
Kate Wright @newsprof1.bsky.social · Sep 5
Well, there's a surprise! Just won Outstanding Monograph of the Year from @meccsa.bsky.social for Capturing News, Capturing Democracy @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with @martinscott2010.bsky.social and @melbunce.bsky.social
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newsprof1.bsky.social
Well, there's a surprise! Just won Outstanding Monograph of the Year from @meccsa.bsky.social for Capturing News, Capturing Democracy @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with @martinscott2010.bsky.social and @melbunce.bsky.social
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developmentuea.bsky.social
📢 Job alert!

Our school is hiring a Teaching Fellow in Global Development.

🗓️ 6-month post starting Jan 2026
💰 £38,784–£46,049
🌍 Focus: Geography & Global Development
🧭 Includes UK field course on legacies of empire

Apply by 22 Sept 2025:
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/17...
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developmentuea.bsky.social
Our own @martinscott2010.bsky.social has published a new policy brief for the #G20, calling for stronger support for independent, diverse, and financially viable media.

Part of the #M20 initiative ahead of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.

Read it here: media20.org/wp-content/u...
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linardsudris.bsky.social
🐘 Have you ever wondered about the elephant(s) in the newsroom?

In a new mixed-method study, we argue that news agencies still shape the news - which our interview partners agree with but which contrasts with academia's low attention to them.

Findings in 🧵

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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melbunce.bsky.social
I'm very excited to be working with
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social to host a major international summit on media freedom in 2025 at City University with
@unesconow.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social, IBAHRI, Justice for Journalists @citystgeorges.bsky.social Sign up- jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
SAVE THE DATE: UK Media Freedom Forum - Justice for Journalists
When: Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th March 2025, in London and online Where: City, University of London The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ) and the Internation...
jfj.fund
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developmentuea.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers & Delegates!

Join us for #Gender & #Development: Debates for a Changing World

📅 19-20 June 2025, UEA, Norwich
📝 Submit your abstract by 21 March: [email protected]
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beckyfrancis.bsky.social
Wonderful to be at Starbank School today to launch the Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report www.gov.uk/government/p... Fantastic to meet students and staff, and to see the curriculum brought to life by expert teachers
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newsguy.bsky.social
"Voice of America was the most sought-after radio broadcaster in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, in many cases, by a considerable margin."
Silencing the Voice of America | Lowy Institute
www.lowyinstitute.org
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newsguy.bsky.social
The Last Days of Voice of America. www.cjr.org/first_person...
The Last Days at Voice of America
Covering the press freedom beat at VOA, I got a front-row seat to its demise.
www.cjr.org
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donmoyn.bsky.social
New, from me: A new book reveals how Trump's effort to politicize Voice of America offers a preview of what an authoritarian American state media would look like if he returns to office.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/capturing-...
Capturing State Media: Trump Edition
The weaponization of Voice of America is a preview of a second Trump term
donmoynihan.substack.com
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developmentuea.bsky.social
Free 4-week course: Why Media Matters for Global Development? @publicmedia.bsky.social

Content covers:
- Media representations of poverty, inequality, and development
- Participatory and community media
- Social media’s role in development campaigns

Enroll now: www.futurelearn.com/courses/medi...
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benparker140.bsky.social
Eg about the process of reform: “The existing aid system does a good job of saving lives and alleviating suffering. Whilst reform is needed now is not the time.”

“Knee-jerk reform triggered by current instabilities won't help. We need a clear future state in mind based on solid foresight work.”
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claesdevreese.bsky.social
Competitive authoritarianism 🇺🇸

Strongly recommend listening to or reading this @npr.org interview with Steven Levitsky.

Sharp analysis (in part based on the @foreignaffairs.com piece) on why they define the current US situation as ‘competitive authoritarianism’

www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
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richardstupart.com
**Academic position klaxon**

My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply for the Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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jessmaddox.bsky.social
Shocking numbers from TJ Billard's ICA presentation on the lack of qualitative research in communication journals.
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developmentuea.bsky.social
🎪 Heading to #LatitudeFestival?

Catch UEA @martinscott2010.bsky.social (DEV) & Anshuman Mondal (Literature) on Sunday at 14:20 at The Listening Post.

They’ll talk Freedoms in a Fractured World—a vital convo on free speech, #media & #democracy.

Read more: www.latitudefestival.com/artists/uea-...
Artist | UEA: Freedoms of Speech in a Fractured World
UEA: Freedoms of Speech in a Fractured World
www.latitudefestival.com
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by Martin Scott

martinscott2010.bsky.social
"Frontex collected personal data for years through covert interrogations of migrants after their arrival in Europe that lacked basic legal guarantees"

Apostolis Fotiadis, @stavinoha.bsky.social + Lola Hierro expose another scandal involving Frontex and migrants' rights

elpais.com/internaciona...
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aejmc.bsky.social
Congrats to the AEJMC Tankard Book Award Winner:
Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press Used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow, Gwyneth Mellinger, University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. Also congrats to the two finalists! #AEJMC25 #AejmcAwards
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martinscott2010.bsky.social
Only 17% of articles in the Journal of Communication (1961-2016) are qualitative! What?!
jessmaddox.bsky.social
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · Jun 16
Shocking numbers from TJ Billard's ICA presentation on the lack of qualitative research in communication journals.
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newsprof1.bsky.social
Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!
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by Martin Scott

martinscott2010.bsky.social
Not many of these posts around at the moment, so a big opportunity...
richardstupart.com
Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · Jun 3
**Academic position klaxon**

My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Apply for the Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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rodakorset.bsky.social
Professor @Martin Scott från @University of East Anglia är expert inom humanitär journalistik och bjöd tillsammans med övriga deltagare på en diskussion om möjligheterna att sätta människan i centrum.
Här finns inspelningen: youtu.be/16OKhx0OtaY?...
UTBLICK: Finns det utrymme för humanitär journalistik?
YouTube video by svenskarodakorset
youtu.be
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by Martin Scott

martinscott2010.bsky.social
*NEW ARTICLE*:

What do #journalists think of the international media freedom campaigns that aim to support them – like the #MediaFreedomCoalition - and how might their perspectives help us better understand the impacts of such initiatives?

We try to answer here... ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
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by Martin Scott

martinscott2010.bsky.social
Just found out that our book - "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and Voice of America" has been shortlisted for the MeCCSA Monograph of the Year award. @newsprof1.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social

See here for all the shortlisted articles/books www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...
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by Martin Scott — Reposted by Martin Scott

martinscott2010.bsky.social
We are looking for a Teaching Fellow in #GlobalDevelopment with a particular focus on #Media and #Communication

Deadline: 20th May 2025. Start Date: 1 Sept 2025 for 11 months

See here for more details about the role - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT311/t...

Please share with anyone who might be interested
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thecontinent.org
#WorldPressFreedomDay: Africans want a media that watches over government.

Check out @afrobarometer.bsky.social’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent.
Africans back the media’s right to bite ‘Media should scrutinise government’ vs ‘Media should avoid negative reporting’ 39 African countries | 2021/2023 Africans want democracy (66%), with competing political parties (64%). They want Parliament to make the laws (69%) and to monitor how the president spends taxpayers’ money (66%). Even more, they want an independent watchdog: On average across 39 countries, 72% of Africans say the media “should constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption”. It’s the majority view in every surveyed country. Only a quarter (26%) of respondents say too much negative reporting is damaging for the country, though this rises above a third in Côte d’Ivoire (34%), São Tomé and Príncipe (34%), Zimbabwe (35%), Cameroon (36%), Sudan (40%), Senegal (42%), and Mozambique (43%). This year, two of the above made ugly headlines: Mozambican journalist Arlindo Chissale died after being beaten by security forces, and Zimbabwean journalist Watson Flexy Munyaka died after being thrown out of a moving vehicle. These incidents serve as chilling reminders, on this World Press Freedom Day (3 May), that even with strong public backing, too often the watchdogs have to watch their backs. #AfricanMedia #TheContinent #MediaFreedom
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by Martin Scott

martinscott2010.bsky.social
This is such a clear, compelling account of the collapse of democracy in the US. I strongly recommend listening
claesdevreese.bsky.social
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Apr 23
Competitive authoritarianism 🇺🇸

Strongly recommend listening to or reading this @npr.org interview with Steven Levitsky.

Sharp analysis (in part based on the @foreignaffairs.com piece) on why they define the current US situation as ‘competitive authoritarianism’

www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org

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posada.website
Consider submitting a paper to our workshop “AI x Crisis: Tracing New Directions Beyond Deployment and Use,” which will take place at the Aarhus Conference (Critical Action, Theory, and Practice in Computing) on August 18-19! More information: sites.google.com/view/ai-x-cr...
AI X Crisis: Tracing New Directions beyond Deployment and Use
Overview Faced with multiple, intersecting crises, numerous computing technologies have emerged and interacted with the crises. Amidst the growing prominence of AI, the discourses on AI-related harms ...
sites.google.com
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developmentuea.bsky.social
Conservation in a Connected World 🌍

DEV’s Rachel Carmenta recently presented her Connected Conservation model (Biological Conservation, 2024) at @zslofficial.bsky.social Science and Conservation Event, exploring how #conservation must address wealth as a root driver of #climate crises.
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