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The advent of the internet has changed how politics and the media influence each other - and not always in a good way. AAP Image/Lukas Coch

October 10, 2018

Media Files: Guardian Australia’s Katharine Murphy and former MP David Feeney on the digital disruption of media and politics

Andrea Carson, The University of Melbourne and Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University

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Today on the podcast we're talking filter bubbles, fake news, opinion vs fact. Media Files asks two experts how the media and politics influence each other - and why that's causing concern.

Bob Woodward arrives at Trump Tower, January 2017. EPA/Albin Lohr-Jones

September 6, 2018

What we (don’t) get from yet another book ‘exposing’ Donald Trump

Robert E Gutsche Jr, Lancaster University

Bob Woodward’s supposedly explosive findings about Trump are not what we need.

July 18, 2018

Why the BBC ties itself in knots over ‘balance’ – clue: it’s the licence fee

Catrin Owen, University of Liverpool

The public broadcaster tries to cater to all views, but sometimes that’s a dangerous strategy.

Is speaking some evil really so bad? VMKphotos/shutterstock

September 8, 2017

‘Is truth overrated?’ What the experts say

Daniel Klyn, University of Michigan; Christopher Beem, Penn State; Maryanne Reed, West Virginia University, and Troy Campbell, University of Oregon

We gave four scholars from different disciplines a chance to offer their opinions on this important question.

June 29, 2017

Let’s face it, Jon Snow’s views are no great secret

Gabriel Moreno Esparza, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Is impartiality a red herring in the age of blogs and social media?

February 27, 2017

Trump is right: stories will dry up if the press can’t use anonymous sources

Judith Townend, University of Sussex and Richard Danbury, De Montfort University

The US president’s attack on confidential sources is one of many legal and technological threats to public interest journalism, as a new report shows

Balance is an empty term these days. MilousSK

November 25, 2016

Why journalistic ‘balance’ is failing the public

Bruce Mutsvairo, Northumbria University, Newcastle

In a ‘post-truth’ world, presenting both points of view can often be misleading.

May 13, 2016

BBC’s online services must move towards cooperation rather than competition

John Downey, Loughborough University

Under a new direction, the BBC can be an engine of growth for the competition, not just a rival.

In the press room… Richard Carson/Reuters

April 22, 2016

Could Donald Trump change journalism for the better?

Ryan J. Thomas, University of Missouri-Columbia

Trump’s campaign challenges the conventions of politics and liberal democracy. So maybe the time has come to question how journalists practice objectivity.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton fields questions from reporters in Dover, New Hampshire. Brian Snyder/Reuters

April 5, 2016

When covering elections, journalists face a debilitating dilemma

Justin Buchler, Case Western Reserve University

A partisan media landscape has made it almost impossible for journalists to avoid charges of bias when calling out a candidate’s dishonesty.

The ‘Iron Lady’ faces off with the BBC during her prime ministership. PA/PA Archive

March 17, 2016

Who do they think ‘we’ are? Why the BBC should keep its distance

James Stewart, Cardiff University and Philip Mitchell, University of South Wales

The public broadcaster’s guidelines set out the need for impartiality, but some of its presenters appear not to have seen them.

February 24, 2016

How South Africa’s media deny the country’s youth a voice

Anthea Garman, Rhodes University and Vanessa Malila, Rhodes University

Research in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, shows that many young, black and poor people do not recognise themselves or their communities in the stories they see, hear or read in mainstream media.

How to report impartially in the face of horrors like Gaza? EPA

September 1, 2014

You can’t keep emotions out of the Israel‑Palestine issue, so don’t try

Naomi Head, University of Glasgow

While an open-ended ceasefire agreement is currently holding between Israel and the Palestinian factions, it is clear that the rule of international law has failed in Gaza. The international community…

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