Helen Gubbins University of Sheffield Josephine Coleman Birkbeck College, University of London MeCCSA Radio Studies Network at the 2018 Transnational Radio Conference, Prato, Italy From the 10th – 13th of July 2018, over 150 radio and audio specialists from all over the world descended on Prato in Northern Italy, to attend the 2018 biennial …Continue Reading
Phil Ramsey Ulster University So far in 2018 the MeCCSA Policy Network has supported two events. First, the Media Democracy Festival 2018: Faking It, Breaking It, Re-Making It – What’s wrong with our media and how to fix it took place at Birkbeck, University of London on 17 March 2018. The event was a national …Continue Reading
Dominique Webb & Mikey Murray University of Lincoln The annual Journal of Media Practice and Education and MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium took place at the University of Lincoln on June 15th 2018. This year’s theme was ‘Contexts for Film Practice’ and our aim was to explore the diversity and breadth of work taking place in …Continue Reading
Rinella Cere Sheffield Hallam University The first REaPN event of the year took place in June at East London University under the iniative of a new committee member of the network, Naida Redgrave and and the Vice-Chair Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, with many invited speakers coming from as further afield as Turkey, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The …Continue Reading
Anita Biressi University of Roehampton I’m beginning this report with thanks to our previous Chair Natalie Fenton who, for an incredible 12 years, was tireless in her service to MeCCSA members. In her final Three-D report she outlined the evolving landscape of the REF and the struggles we’re experiencing as individuals, HEIs and as an …Continue Reading
Alenka Jelen-Sanchez University of Stirling We are delighted to host the first MeCCSA annual conference in Scotland at the University of Stirling from 9 to 11 January 2019. The Division of Communications, Media and Culture at Stirling has been a major academic centre for the study and research of film, media, communications and journalism for …Continue Reading
William Proctor Bournemouth University As many sweltering academics beaver away on research outputs of various sorts in libraries, offices and domestic writing havens, the British summer heat wave continues its relentless assault. With nary a sprinkle of rain on the horizon, the monsoon that is REF 2021 is a weather warning like no other, crackling …Continue Reading
Damian Tambini London School of Economics and Political Science Unfortunately the Fake News report was leaked by Dominic Cummings in a cynical attempt to personalise, delegitimise, and thus derail an important policy discussion. What Cummings does not relate in his blog is that the report is highly critical of him personally. Cummings is being investigated …Continue Reading
Tom Mills Aston University The BBC is its own worst enemy. For decades its leadership have stumbled from one crisis to the next, only offering any vision for the Corporation’s future when and insofar as it is politically expedient. This began with John Birt’s much maligned reforms, which first weakened independent reporting in the name …Continue Reading
Tim Gopsill Former editor of the Journalist (NUJ) and Free Press (CPBF) Like Sysiphus pushing his boulder up the mountain, campaigners for responsible and accountable media are having to labour all over again, since the rock was sent crashing back down by the government three months ago. On May 9, by just nine votes, the …Continue Reading
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