[Air-L] Upcoming Zoom Talk: “Media Policy in a Time of Crisis" with Victor Pickard

[Eleanor Marchant]

Hi Everyone!

We're excited to announce that for our next session of the Global Media Policy Seminar Series here at the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy in Oxford, we will be welcoming Victor Pickard from the Annenberg School for Communication at UPenn to talk about Media Policy in a Time of Crisis: Imagining a Post-Pandemic Future for News and Information”.

The talk is scheduled for: 16:30 British Summer Time, Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Abstract:

News media industries—particularly newspapers—are facing an existential threat. Dramatic shifts in digital economics, especially the collapse of commercial journalism’s advertising revenue, have devastated local journalism  in recent years. The pandemic has accelerated this structural crisis and democratic societies across the globe are scrambling to save journalism before it is too late. My talk will draw from my recent book Democracy without Journalism? to discuss potential policy interventions to not only salvage–but also reinvent–our news media system. Ultimately this crisis is an opportunity to reimagine what journalism could and should be.

Follow this link for more information about the talk, the seminar series as a whole, and details about how to join the live discussion in two weeks: https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/global-media-policy-seminar-series-victor-pickard-on-media-policy-in-a-time-of-crisis/


ELEANOR R MARCHANT PHD

ConflictNET<https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/politics-and-practice-social-media-conflict-conflictnet> Postdoctoral Fellow

Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

University of Oxford

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