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White people should stop trying to be Africa’s Saviour

Date 02/05/2019

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In today’s episode we are looking at the issue of ‘white saviour complex’ and the way the developing world and particularly Africa has been portrayed in popular Western culture.

We are joined by Sabrina Richmond, an actor and playwright whose new play An African in the Snow is at the Pleasance Theatre Islington tomorrow. We talked about how she felt as a young girl growing up in Africa with this kind of imagery, how controversy flared again this year with Strictly Come Dancing star Stacey Dooley, and how caricatures of people of colour go beyond humanitarian imagery to popular culture.

Presented by: Dr. Glenda Cooper and Dr. Lindsey Blumell

Produced by: Atina Dimitrova

The controversy over white saviour complex reignited in the UK earlier this year when Stacey Dooley travelled to Uganda for Comic Relief. While out there she posted a picture of her on Instagram holding a young boy and talking about how gorgeous he was. British MP David Lammy was outraged.

David, is the issue with me being white? (Genuine question) …because if that’s the case, you could always go over there and try raise awareness? Comic relief have raised over 1 billion pounds since they started.
I saw projects that were saving lives with the money. Kids lives. https://t.co/pPgez9OxN8

— Stacey Dooley (@StaceyDooley) 27 February 2019

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Breaking – or broken news?

Date 23/04/2019

Posted by Atina Dimitrova

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In our first live event we are talking to three leading journalists who share their insight on the challenges to report Brexit.

Listen to the episode featuring Holly Watt (author and journalist who has worked for the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian), Ric Bailey (the BBC’s Chief Political Adviser) and Laura Hughes (The Financial Times‘s political correspondent).

Presented by: Dr. Glenda Cooper and Dr. Lindsey Blumell

Produced by: Atina Dimitrova

: Holly Watt, Ric Bailey and Laura Hughes

: Ric Bailey, the BBC’s Chief Political Adviser

: Lindsey Blumell and Glenda Cooper

: Lindsey Blumell, Glenda Cooper and Atina Dimitrova

15,000 EU referendum related articles were published online across 20 national outlets during the official campaign. The economy was the most covered campaign issue but coverage of immigration more than tripled over the course of the campaign.

Despite many newspapers taking a pro-Leave stance there was still a shock in the early hours of 24 June 2016 when the result was announced.

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Holly Watt started her career at the Sunday Times, before working on the investigation teams at the Telegraph, where she played a key role in exposing the MPs’ expenses scandal, and the Guardian. Holly’s debut novel, To the Lions, was published in February 2019 by Raven Books/Bloomsbury. She is currently working on the sequel, to be published in 2020.

Ric Bailey is the BBC’s Chief Political Adviser, Deputy Director of Editorial Policy and Standards and a member of the BBC’s Senior Leadership Team. He chairs the Broadcasters’ Liaison Group, which oversees the system of Party Political Broadcasts for the UK broadcasting industry. From 2012 to 2014, Ric was Special Editorial Adviser to the BBC Director-General. Previously, he was Executive Editor of BBC One’s Question Time and before that Editor of the BBC’s Political News operation at Westminster. He’s a former lobby correspondent for BBC TV and radio. In 2010, Ric represented the BBC in negotiations to set up the first ever TV election debates, for which he won, jointly, an RTS Journalism Award. He is Visiting Professor in Political Journalism at Leeds University and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Language and Cognition at University College London.

Laura Hughes is a political correspondent for The Financial Times. She received the 2018 British Journalism Award for political journalism for her reporting on sexual harassment in Westminster and has recently been awarded the coveted 2019 Stern Fellowship at The Washington Post. She has extensively covered Brexit.

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In Conversation with Dan Balz

Date 31/03/2019

Posted by Atina Dimitrova

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In today’s episode we are talking about the adversarial relationship various US presidents have had with the media.

Here at London’s Frontline Club we caught up with the Washington Post’s Chief correspondent Dan Balz who has been closely following US presidential elections for five decades. We talk about the ups and downs of modern presidential news reporting; how Donald Trump has changed that and what journalists need to do heading into 2020.

Presented by: Dr. Glenda Cooper and Dr. Lindsey Blumell

Produced by: Atina Dimitrova

Dan Balz

Back in the 1970s, Richard Nixon secretly taped approximately 3,700 hours of conversations. That obviously backfired and we have since learned more about Nixon’s character and dealings than any investigative journalists could ever uncover about a president.

Nowadays, the relationship remains problematic…

The mainstream media has refused to cover the fact that the head of the VERY important Senate Intelligence Committee, after two years of intensive study and access to Intelligence that only they could get, just stated that they have found NO COLLUSION between “Trump” & Russia….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019

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