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  1. Covering Syria and the Refugee Crisis (2016)

    Subject
    Media studies

    Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series on her own experiences of covering the Syrian refugee crisis for Channel 4 News....

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  2. Kate Plays Christine (2016)

    Director
    Robert Greene
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 112 minutes), £9.99

    Documentary by Robert Greene about the on-air suicide of American newsreader Christine Chubbuck. Chubbuck, who was a news reporter for a local television station in Florida shot herself live on air in 1974....

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  3. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Fact Checking, The New Journalism (2016)

    Subject
    Media studies

    This interview was conducted in the context of the 2016 US Presidential Election campaign. In it, Lucas Graves, assistant professor in the school of journalism and mass communication at the University of...

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  4. I Voted? (2016)

    Director
    Jason Grant Smith
    Producer
    Katie Couric
    Subject
    American Studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 0 PAL, 76 minutes), $250

    When we cast a ballot, how do we know if our vote counts? Filmmaker Jason Grant Smith takes the viewer on a six-year journey into the heart of American democracy: the vote. What began as an investigation of...

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  5. What Brexit Tells Us About Economics, Policy and the Media (2016)

    Subject
    Economics; Media studies

    In this Prize-winning lecture, Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, tackles the inconsistencies and inaccuracies reported in the media...

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  6. John Pilger: Breaking the Mirror (2015)

    Director
    David Munro
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 mins), £9.99

    Documentary. Originally broadcast in 1997, the film considers the downfall of the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and...

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  7. Tracking the Emergence of New Words Across Time and Space (2015)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies

    Podcast. Dr Jack Grieve, Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, asserts that very little is known about how new words spread in language. New words are regularly identified by lexicographers,...

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  8. Tough Being Loved by Jerks (2015)

    Producer
    Daniel Leconte
    Subject
    Media studies; Politics & government; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 102 mins), $149.00

    Documentary. Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had incurred the wrath of Muslims worldwide, Philippe Val, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, was cited to court...

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  9. Citizenfour (2015)

    Director
    Laura Poitras
    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 mins.), £15.99

    In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted emails from someone...

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  10. TV Family: Behind the Scenes of the First Reality Television Program (2015)

    Director
    Ethan Thompson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 56 minutes), $275

    In 1960, NBC transmitted what is widely considered to be the first "reality television" show in American broadcast history. Hosted by Jane Wyatt, and billing itself as a "new kind of visual reporting," it...

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