Charlie Beckett is the founding Director of POLIS, the forum for research and debate into journalism and society at the London School of Economics. For 20 years he has worked for some of the best news and current affairs programmes at the BBC and Channel 4 News, ITN as an award-winning producer and programme editor. He was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. He currently writes and broadcasts internationally about global journalism as well as teaching and researching at the LSE and the University of the Arts of London. As an experienced journalist who has covered events around the world and now as a think-tank director, Charlie Beckett has a unique vantage point on global news. POLIS engages with its international network of news media practitioners who take part in all aspects of its forum and study work centred on the LSE. And because POLIS works with governments, organisations and the public in different parts of the world, Charlie Beckett has a rare understanding of the impact of journalism beyond the newsroom.
Introduction
1. Terror, Values and Community
2. The new media landscape
3. Networked journalism.
4. Politics and networked journalism
5. Editorial diversity.
Media Literacy.
Conclusion
