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‘Investigative Journalism’, launch of the third edition

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The third edition of the ‘Investigative Journalism’, published by Routledge, was launched on Thursday 1st April 2021, courtesy of City, University of London. The third edition has been edited by Professor Hugo de Burgh and buy levitra online price Dr Paul Lashmar.

Panellists and chapter authors were Rachel Oldroyd (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Hamish Boland-Rudder (International Consortium of Investigative Journalism) and Clare Rewcastle Brown (Sarawak Report). Student investigative journalist contributor was Isabelle Stanley and the Master of ceremonies was Richard Danbury, programme director of City’s MA Investigative Journalism.

This third edition maps the new world of investigative journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energised journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences for politics and business worldwide.　

In this new edition, expert contributors demonstrate how crowdsourcing, big data, globalisation of information, and changes in media ownership and funding have escalated the impact of investigative journalists. The book includes case studies of investigative journalism from around the world, including the exposure of EU corruption, the destruction of the Malaysian environment, and investigations in China, Poland and diflucan without a prescription Turkey. From Ibero-America to Nigeria, India to the Arab world, investigative journalists intensify their countries’ evolution by inquisition and revelation.

This new edition reveals how investigative journalism has gone digital and global. Investigative Journalism is essential for all those intending to master global politics, international relations, media and justice in the 21st century.

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CMC and the Foreign Office

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CMC makes training programmes on China for FCDO

In March 2021, China Media Centre was commissioned to deliver two one-hour educational programmes for The China Capability Programme run by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The two programmes are designed to improve the understanding of China by civil servants.  Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Centre, interviewed 6 different experts on 2 subjects: The Governance of China and China and the International Rules Based Order. The interviews were edited by a former senior BBC news editor into two one-hour long programmes available through the International Academy’s training platform, accessible to civil servants across HMG. 

The FCO (as it then was) was the China Media Centre’s first client when CMC was set up in 2005, commissioning CMC to brief several hundred Chinese media handlers and official spokespersons on the roles of the media and journalism in British society and propecia sans ordonnance polity. Commissioned under the Public Diplomacy Challenge Fund, the project was managed by Professor de Burgh and Professor Ivor Gaber, then of Goldsmiths College.

These are the names of those interviewed for the 2020 project:

Dr. Kishore Mahbubani, former Singaporean Ambassador to the UN, Professor Tony Saich of Harvard Kennedy School, Professor Daniel Bell of Shandong University, Professor Jane Duckett of Glasgow University, Dr. Tim Summers of Chatham House and Bonnie Glaser of the Central Institute of Strategic Studies in the US participated in the programmes. 

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Professor de Burgh’s Gresham College lecture

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On 1 December 2020 Professor de Burgh delivered public lecture China through its Media for Gresham College.
China’s media provide a window into the Chinese mind, as the country asserts itself in the world as a great power. What do Chinese people think is the purpose of life? What matters most to them? In what do they believe? How do officials and journalists explain their responsibilities? 

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Professor Hugo de Burgh gave an online talk about “Investigative Journalism 2021: Changing Contexts, Changing Practices”

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On 20 December 2020, Professor Hugo de Burgh gave an online talk about “Investigative Journalism 2021: Changing Contexts, Changing Practices” at the Beijing Foreign Studies University’s event and discussion of “China in the Post Covid-19 Era: The Opportunities and Challenges of in-depth Reporting“.

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The Eight Hundred (八佰) International IMAX Premiere Night

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On 14 September 2020, CMC staff and last year’s MA and PhD students were invited by the UK-China Film Collab, a London based non-profit organisation, to the Premier at Leicester Square of The Eight Hundred (八佰), a 2020 Chinese historical war drama film, directed and co-written by Guan Hu (管虎). The film is about eight hundred Chinese soldiers fighting under siege in a warehouse in the middle of Shanghai and directly across the river from the International Concession, in 1937.  

After the film, the CMC Director was interviewed by CCTV, CGTN and Europe Daily (欧洲日报) as to whether he thought that the dramatic and viagra generique paiement a la livraison technically brilliant film and its human story would appeal to Westerners. He suggested that for the film to be comprehensible and appealing to Europeans and Americans, it would be useful to get across these points:

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