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What's on your Christmas media wishlist?🤔🎄 To round off 2024, Impress CEO Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana sat down with our Chair Richard Ayre to talk through their thoughts on media events of the past year and what they want to see change as we head into 2025! On the public engaging with trustworthy sources, Lexie said: "I know there is this plethora of information out there, but this isn't about you having to have a certain educational background in order to think through these issues surrounding your media consumption." Check out the full video now! 👉 https://bit.ly/3ZV4ld7 #Media #2024 #Recap #Review #Journalism #News #NewsIndustry #MediaLiteracy

"Recent debates about social media’s dangers are important, but they miss the most important thing: that around twenty years ago societies delegated to business the design of the spaces where human beings are social. This fundamental error has put our politics and societies at huge risk: the pursuit of profit and social design do not mix well. "Today much of people’s experience of the online world is channelled through social media platforms, designed for one end: to generate attention which can be sold to advertisers. "Inevitably the wider internet contains material that is harmful. But instead of building platforms that mitigated the risk of harmful material circulating, we did the opposite: platforms pursued business models that exploited our attention by allowing content to circulate, regardless of quality, and generated platform activity, whether polarising or not. "As a result, our commercial platforms have become polarisation machines, perfect vehicles for the industrialisation of gossip on a global scale. By default, we have allowed Big Tech to build our space of the world: that is, the space of all possible spaces where we are social. "No emperor in history ever had that power, but the possibility of that power emerged with the internet and World Wide Web. The tragedy is that then we have built the wrong space of the world, a space that is now constitutionally toxic." Read our latest Impress Insights newsletter with Nick Couldry now! 👉 https://bit.ly/49tQvS5 #Newsletter #SocialMedia #X #Facebook #OnlineSafety #Opinion

"All of our problems - with our health, the planet, economics are all interrelated and we NEED to be shown the connections." 🔗 In the latest episode of Dis/Mis, Lucinda Guy and Alice Armstrong talk through their experience running a community radio station in Totnes, how conspiracy theories manifest, and how they approach issues of misinformation. Lucinda and Alice are on the board of directors of Soundart Radio, a volunteer-run, Ofcom-regulated station that provides a space for members of the community to develop and broadcast their ideas. Listen to the episode now! 👉 https://bit.ly/3ZuyTRw #Radio #Podcast #Journalism #Media #Misinformation #Disinformation #Community

Impress is impressive. I have a deep respect for what they do and what they stand for especially now. So I it is with real affection and hope that I post the following… Impress is on the lookout for a new Chair to help mould the new direction of the organisation and achieve our goal of creating an informed, transparent, and trustworthy information environment that benefits everyone. Candidates should be comfortable speaking on a public platform, engaging and networking with a wide range of influential stakeholders and have exceptional abilities to forge partnerships that will further our mission. Impress prides itself on its independence, so any candidate should boast a record of unimpeachable integrity and trustworthiness to match that. The coming years are set to be some of the most important in Impress’s history as we tackle complex issues such as news literacy, develop new commercial offerings, and focus on public understanding of ethical standards and rights of redress. If you are interested in joining the UK’s only independent press regulator, you can find out more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/eKbWvMjn #NonExecRole #ChairRecruitment #IndependentPressRegulation

The operations of social media platforms are a constant topic of passionate debate 📲 But are they actually working for us? In the next edition of Impress Insights, Nick Couldry argues that a reimagining of platforms is needed. Sign up now to be the first to receive it! 👉 https://bit.ly/3rLdDtX #SocialMedia #Newsletter #Insight #Opinion

Can we really trust the media? Is there enough accountability in journalism? And how important is it to act ethically? 🤔 🎙️ These were some of the topics explored when Impress Chief Executive Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana joined Simon Hodgkins for the latest episode of The Global Discussion. Have a listen! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eWM-pB_m

📍 "How do we reimagine local and community news?" For five years, Megan Lucero ran Bureau Local, a project set up by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, with the aim of revolutionising local journalism. In episode 6 of Dis/Mis, we delve deeper into how she did that as well as the successes and challenges that came with it. Also up for discussion is how community engagement could be a route to improving public trust in journalism, how journalists can act as facilitators in their communities, and whether traditional practices are becoming outdated. Listen now wherever you get your pods! 👉 https://bit.ly/4f7e58d #Local #Community #Journalism #Media #InvestigativeJournalism #Trust #Misinformation #Disinformation

"As women still experience rampant violence and systemic oppression in the UK, the press's responsibility is even more urgent." Last week, Impress Chief Executive Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana handed out the award for Best Feature at the Write To End Violence Against Women And Girls Awards, hosted by End Violence Against Women Coalition. The night was organised to recognise and celebrate those journalists who have reported on the violence and discrimination faced by women and girls. The award in question went to Amandas Ong for her story for Jacobin Magazine on how the UK asylum system puts survivors of gender-based violence directly in harm's way. Congratulations, Amandas! Lexie was joined on the judging panel by National Union of Journalists president Dr Natasha Hirst FRSA, Sky News host Sophie Ridge, and Rosemary Douce from IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation). Find out more about their mission and how the night unfolded! 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4MgSM24 #EndViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #EVAW #Journalism #Media #Awards

📲 Since Elon Musk took control of Twitter - and rebranded it X - there has been a steady exodus from the platform. This was accelerated following Musk's central role in the US election and his comments on the UK's response to the riots in Southport, which were sparked by misinformation surrounding the stabbing of three girls in the Merseyside town. Many of those leaving X are heading to Bluesky - a platform praised by many as a rebirth of what Twitter used to be many years ago 🦋 📰 As a press regulator, we feel it is important to be wherever publishers and journalists are operating. That is why we have joined Bluesky. However, many publishers are still active on X and it still retains a huge number of active users who are getting their news and information from their timelines and the platform’s algorithms. As such, we feel it is important to remain on X as well, so that we can continue to assess content when necessary and ensure that guidance on journalistic standards, ethics, misinformation, new literacy and beyond are still reaching those who need it. Find out more about our decision 👉 https://bit.ly/3OucJcY #Bluesky #Twitter #X #ElonMusk #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Regulation

"You can be VERY misleading while still making a series of factual statements." When it comes to broadcast news, impartiality is a word you will hear a lot. But does it actually help the flow of accurate information? 🤔 In the latest episode of Dis/Mis, Debs is joined by Dr Tom Mills to discuss broadcast media and how impartiality rules can lead to an increase in misleading information. Tom is chair of the Media Reform Coalition, a lecturer in sociology at Aston University, and the author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! 👉 https://bit.ly/49be7Lh #Misinformation #Disinformation #Impartiality #BBC #Broadcast #Journalism