adrian monck

Month: February 2008

  • Emotions and journalism revisited

    A while back we hosted a conference to promote the work of colleagues at Bournemouth University on emotions and journalism. In the afternoon there was a session with Derek Draper which I followed via Martin Moore and posted here. Outgoing Dart Center boss Mark Brayne took issue with me, and in the interests of fairness…

  • Arguing against Nick Davies

    British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms…

  • Miles Kington on the spirit of journalism

    The late Miles Kington was one of those people who could fashion amusement seemingly without batting an eyelid. Here he is in the Times explaining why he could never make it as a reporter: I got caught up in the June 1980 military coup in Bolivia. There had been TV crews waiting in La Paz…

  • Tiny political scandal rocks British public life

    This week a British MP has been in the spotlight for employing his son as a “researcher,” when it seems the young man did nothing for his money. But the issue of him not doing anything has been lost amid wider sniffing at familial employment. Even a mighty oak like Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo…