Magazines and Media History
This post is by Tim Holmes Marcus Morris founded The Eagle comic, still remembered for Dan Dare and cutaway illustrations
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Commentary, debate and opinion about the UK Media industry
Students in the news room
Posted by Sian Morgan Lloyd Last week we highlighted opportunities for you to use Welsh in your studies, including choosing
Read moreThe Conference: Remembering, forgetting and moving on
Posted by Dr Janet Harris The conference began with a story of a child. Standing in front of a picture
Read moreWhere have all the flowers gone? Remembering Aberfan.
October 21st 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. At 9.15 am on that day in 1966, just as Pantglas junior school
Read moreWhy we are moved by images of children in war….and why that’s not enough
Few images have captured the peculiar horrors of the war in Syria more powerfully than the photograph and short video
Read moreFox News: Out with the old – in with the old familiar.
The resignation yesterday of Roger Ailes, Chairman and Chief Executive of Fox News in the US, sent shock waves through an American
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Why we must study the media
Posted by Dr John Jewell From time to time various Tory politicians, journalists and ill informed misanthropes rise from their
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Who can solve Labour’s leadership problem?
Posted by Professor Justin Lewis Photo by 70023venus2009 / CC BY It would be an understatement to say that, in
Read moreJournalism and the road to war in 2003. The Daily Mirror stood out.
When, in October 2015, Tony Blair apologised for the use of “wrong” intelligence in the run up to the 2003
Read moreThe Sun, ‘buyer’s remorse’ and perpetual prejudice.
Providing perhaps a little schadenfreude related light relief amidst the seemingly endless EU referendum coverage was the news yesterday that
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