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Image Description: Old man smiling with a Spectator mug and an open laptop with a George Orwell quote You may have decided to read this article because you are interested in pursuing student journalism. Or you may be here out of spite and hatred. Student journalists, like real journalists, are rarely held in high esteem […]
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Anyone interested in starting a career in journalism today often finds themselves confronted with a fairly pessimistic narrative. Journalism, we are told, is either dying or so impenetrable as to not be worth pursuing. The question is, are they right? The short answer, as you may have guessed from the headline of this article, is […]
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I went into the Edinburgh Fringe Review without any real expectations. I signed up to do it on a last-minute whim, applied for a travel grant from college, and the next thing I knew I was on the train to Scotland. The concept was appealing: a week sharing a flat in central Edinburgh with a […]
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With the corporate hollowing out of the media now commonplace, music journalism is fighting back. The battle against commercialism, clickbait headlines and contemporary trends is well and truly alive and kicking. Online hoaxes, shoddy reporting and all things ‘fake news’, 2018 has truly made its mark as a media meltdown. In Britain, reached journalistic rock […]
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It is no exaggeration to say that Peter Hitchens has become one of the most prominent, and controversial, voices in British media. He began his journalistic career at The Daily Express in 1977. During the 1980s, he worked as a foreign correspondent, reporting particularly from the Eastern Bloc, as well from South Africa during the […]
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Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama “In the current climate, where populism is attacking not only the political elite, anybody with an education is now being classified as an elite and it is particularly having impacts on things like art, theatre, and the sciences.” Last Friday, November 17th, these powerful introductory remarks struck those attending the lecture […]
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Image Credit: University of Salford Press Office/Ammar Abd Rabbo In Trinity term last year, I hurried to St. Catz after the Oxford Guild’s email went out. As you may have guessed from the byline, the lady I was there to meet was Tawakkol Karman. She was born on February 7th 1979 in Shar’ab al-Salam, Yemen, […]
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Image Credit: Truth. Integrity. Posterity: Journalism in a changing world Lady Margaret Hall is to host an event celebrating the life of a former Oxford student and journalist. Paul McClean studied French at LMH before graduating in 2015. He was heavily involved within student journalism during his time at the University, including writing for The […]
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Will Hutton, journalist and the current Principal of Hertford College, has had a long and dynamic career. Beginning in investment banking, Hutton’s life took a dramatic turn when he moved into journalism. From here he made his name as a prominent economist working for the BBC’s Newsnight, as editor-in-chief of The Observer, and as director […]
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It is difficult to fault Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW, a play that probes the depths of misogyny with an astute awareness of the painful sexism that journalism perpetuates, but also of the human action behind it. TheatreGoose’s production of the show at the Pilch treats its subject with flawlessly executed precision, wit and sensitivity, unpeeling layers […]
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The media today is in a state of flux. The word media itself covers a broad spectrum – from social media to print journalism, television broadcasting to blog posts – and there is much uncertainty as to how we process information and data in a complex technological world. Underpinning every platform or device, however, is […]
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The recent upsurge of political and fashionable protest dressing, which spanned from the Pussyhats at the Women’s marches to the unforgettable crimson ‘Make America Great Again’ caps in 2017, was always going to filter its way into Hollywood, it was simply a question of when. Fast-forward to the Golden Globes on the 7th of January […]
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A student radio is often at the heart of a university. In the UK, it’s hard to find a student union that doesn’t support or fund one. On a national level, these student or university radio stations are represented by the UK Student Radio Association, and there is even a Student Radio Awards – which […]
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The message from mainstream media in the past eighteen months has been clear: Jeremy Corbyn is an inexperienced, radical leftie unfit to leader a political party, let alone a country. Even supposedly unbiased media outfits like the BBC have not exactly been extolling his virtues. In a world where those at the top will do […]
Continue ReadingOur understanding of fashion resides in metaphors, is anchored in abstractions. Fashion is an art, fashion is a language. But when fashion embodies so many different worldviews, when it is used constantly and tactfully on public and private platforms, when it becomes a stratagem of business, ethics, politics, identity—you can lose sight of it. Because […]
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An Oxford University study has found that 45% of national newspaper articles were pro-Brexit in the two months after 20 February, while 27% have been in favour of remaining in the EU. A further 19% were mixed and 9% took no position. Newspapers were also much more likely to quote Conservative politicians over Labour ones. […]
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The Royal Court Theatre and The Guardian teamed up at the end of last year to produce a series of microplays exploring poignant issues of modern-day Britain. Each play is only a few minutes long, but many of theatre’s most electric playwrights and directors have worked together to make every second burst with precarious ideas of what […]
Continue ReadingRebecca Mead’s versatility when writing about culture and contemporary literature is unmatched. Having written extensively about literature in multiple publications, she also published a book of her own in 2014 called The Road to Middlemarch, an elegant blend of memoir and literary criticism about George Eliot’s famous novel. Her accomplishments in the field of journalism […]
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At 11:30 a.m. yesterday in the 11th quarter of Paris, three armed and hooded men entered the building of the Charlie Hebdo offices, and opened fire. They killed ten people on the spot, one minutes later in the street, and mortally wounded another. Other than the twelve confirmed dead, four more are currently in a […]
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