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Legal and Social Chill: Influences on Collective Non-News Reporting </b></p>
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<p align="CENTER"><font size="4" face="Verdana"><b><font><font>Judith Townend (City University London)</font></font></b></font></p>
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<div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Tahoma"><span style="line-height:15.84000015258789px">This presentation </span><span style="line-height:15px">investigates</span><span style="line-height:15.84000015258789px"> the legal and social factors
influencing national and local editorial decision making in England and Wales, and those that inhibit reporting of news stories, in the context of a globalised and networked news environment. </span></font></div>
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<div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Tahoma"><span style="line-height:15.84000015258789px">Drawing on interviews with media law specialists and surveys among journalists and bloggers, Judith Townend suggests that lawyers play a pivotal
role in the </span><span style="line-height:15px">institutional,</span><span style="line-height:15.84000015258789px"> editorial gatekeeping process, enabling as well as restricting publication. </span></font><font face="Tahoma"><span style="line-height:15.84000015258789px">Their
absence from the editorial process has a paradoxically constraining and liberating effect: the lack of legal advice in poorly resourced newsrooms </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Tahoma; line-height:15.84000015258789px">may lead to
unnecessary censorship of particular stories, but at the same time bloggers without legal support and training may be less reactive to potential libel and privacy risks. </span></div>
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<font face="Tahoma">She also finds that non-legal factors can play an equally forceful role in the collective avoidance of stories. In this way, small bloggers steer clear of particular topics for fear of the social implications in local communities and national
journalists neglect stories which would damage their access to sources or contradict the dominant narrative. </font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>Date:</b> Thursday 29th May, 2014</font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>Time: </b>16:00-17:00<b></b></font></p>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>Location: </b>S226<b> </b>Seminar Room, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, <a href="http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/building.stm?ref=d08h15" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,239); text-decoration:none">John
Woolley Building (A20)</span></b></a><b><span style="color:blue"> </span></b>level 2, entry off Manning Road.</font></p>
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<div style="line-height:15.84000015258789px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><span style="font-weight:700">Judith Townend</span> is a lecturer in journalism at City University London and will be visiting University of Technology,
Sydney for two weeks as part of the Erasmus Mundus programme. Her doctoral research is based at City's Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism and she also works as a research associate on the AHRC-funded Media Plurality and Power project at University of Westminster.</font></div>
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<div style="line-height:15.84000015258789px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Current project:<font color="#0000ff"> <a href="http://mediaplurality.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://mediaplurality.com</a> </font></font></div>
<div style="line-height:15.84000015258789px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Twitter:<font color="#666666"> @jtownend</font></font></div>
<div style="line-height:15.84000015258789px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Blog:<font color="#666666"> </font><a href="http://meejalaw.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">http://meejalaw.com</font></a><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> </span></font></div>
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