An introduction to Polis
I am the founding director of a new journalism and society think-tank at the London School of Economics’ Media and Communications Department.
This blog will be a chance for me to air my opinions on the relationship between journalists and the society they report on.
If you are a journalist, a student, academic or someone who cares about journalism and the effect it has, then I hope you will read and respond to what we put on here.
And I hope that you will click on the links on the front page that will take you through to the full Polis website or you can go to the website for the The London School of Economics . Click on the Teaching link on the front page for more information on that. Click here to get information about the POLIS Summer School .
But the public face of Polis will be its programme of lectures, seminars, research and events that start from this autumn. We will bring significant and controversial figures from the media to talk about their role in society. And we will get important public figures to talk about what they think about the way that the media deals with the world. And then we will get them to talk to each other! Click on the events link to get more information about that.
I spent 20 years working for some of the best news and current affairs programmes at the BBC, LWT and ITN. I went in to journalism because I think that it really matters how our world is reported. With all the technological and commercial changes in journalism and all the social, environmental and political changes in society, I think that journalism matters even more now.
If you care – get in touch and join the Polis debate. Email me at c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk