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<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The
Media and Communications Department at University of Sydney invites you
to join us on Friday 8 May, at 4pm, hear about some of the very latest
thinking on peace journalism. <br>
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<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">Associate Professor Jake Lynch is Director of the </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/centres/cpacs/">Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies</a></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">
at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Debates in Peace
Journalism (Sydney University Press, 2008), as well as numerous other
books, book chapters and articles. He convened the inaugural peace
journalism commission of the International Peace Research Association,
and is an Executive member of the Sydney Peace Foundation. Before
taking up an academic career, Jake was a professional journalist,
having worked as a presenter for BBC World television news, a Political
Correspondent for Sky News and the Sydney correspondent for the
Independent. </font><BR>
<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">Jake’s talk explores Peace Journalism and a global standard for reporting conflict. </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><br>
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<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">Journalism is unaccountable because unassessable, according to the
Oxford philosopher, Onora O'Neill, delivering a BBC Reith Lecture. Many
involved in conflicts round the world have cause for complaint about
media influence, from Rwandan hate radio to the distortions of the New
York Times and Washington Post in covering the debate over the invasion
of Iraq. Prime movers in Radio Milles Collines have been tried for war
crimes; the two US newspapers had the good grace to apologise. But how
could accountability be increased? Not by strengthening regulation,
perhaps, but by devising a global standard for assessing the reporting
of conflict. Jake Lynch puts forward the credentials of peace
journalism, as the basis for such a standard, and explains how it could
work.
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<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Time: 4 to 5pm, Friday 8 May 2009, followed by light refreshments<br>
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Location: Philosophy Room S249, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney<br>
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This event is free and no RSVP is required. Please forward this invitation onto your contacts and lists.<br> <br>Media
At Sydney is series of seminars and public talks presenting the best of
contemporary media and communications research, thinking and
perspectives.<br><br>For
further information please visit
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/index.php?page=events or
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