The debate surrounding media literacy is often too focused on the impact of social media platforms (namely Facebook and Twitter) on the one hand, and the ability and responsibility of citizens to eval...
George Brock
George Brock is a journalist, consultant and Visiting Professor at City, University of London, where he directed the journalism school 2009-14.
He began his reporting career at the Yorkshire Evening Press and The Observer, joining The Times in 1981. After starting at The Times as a feature writer, he became a features editor and, in 1984, op-ed page editor. He was subsequently foreign editor, Brussels bureau chief, European Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor.
He advises the INJECT and DMINR journalism research projects and startups in news. He is on the board of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Gresham College. He was on the board of the World Editors Forum 2001-14 and WEF’s president 2004-08. He was a member of the executive board of the International Press Institute.
He broadcasts, lectures and is the author of Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age (2013). His study of the ‘right to be forgotten’ was published in 2016. He blogs at georgebrock.net.
There has never been a more essential time for journalists to turn their attention to how individuals and institutions are responding to social problems. The news continues to highlight the best of th...
This debate is not about whether or not the problems of the business model for news will or will not have been solved by 2030. Fake news has generated many claims that journalism is more needed than i...
Experimentation and risk-taking and getting-it-wrong are vital to innovation, whether with new products/services or with the management of people, newsrooms, new forms of storytelling and change its...
Is there such a thing as the ‘right’ to be forgotten? The European Court of Justice and European Commission think so. Should there be? Badly defined, it might threaten freedom of knowledge and i...
On the difficulties of navigating the Church and State separation of editorial and commercial, as shown by recent allegations about The Daily Telegraph and HSBC. In short, do media organisations large...
Teaching journalism needs innovation and leadership. It is time to change the way we teach and the way we organize Journalism Schools. Four areas will be considered: entrepreneurship, leadership, ne...
The fight for survival – in the journalism jungle at least - is very much still on. The single hats-off winning business model has yet to be found - assuming there is one. But there is certainly n...
A broad economic crisis, a media advertising crisis, a once-in-a-lifetime structural crisis; from “Crisis, what crisis?” to “Crisis! Crisis! Crisis!” Result: the media industry is still lookin...
Doing investigative journalism requires skill, tenacity and a sixth sense of where to go to get results. The same could be said of acquiring the funding to do investigative journalism. The panel will...
