@BBKBAJM

Birkbeck's BA Journalism and Media combines the academic analysis of media with practical teaching from experienced industry professionals

 London, England
bbk.ac.uk/study/2016/undergraduate/programmes/UUBAJRME_C/
Joined December 2015
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How 'Lula's Army' WhatsApp channel helped turn Brazil election around. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwz0…

Brazil election: How 'Lula's Army' WhatsApp chat helped turn race around

As polls pointed to defeat, millions joined a 'Lula's Army' channel that is credited with helping transform online enthusiasm into real-world mobilisation.

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War, feelings of belonging, and news diets: how russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine did (not) change the news repertoires of Russian speakers in Germany. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

War, Feelings of Belonging, and News Diets: How Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine Did (Not)...

This study examines how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, has influenced the news repertoires of first-generation Russian-speaking migrants living in Germany. Whil...

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Negotiating infrastructural integration: cloud services and the evolution of news website ecosystems in France and the Netherlands. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Negotiating Infrastructural Integration: Cloud Services and the Evolution of News Website Ecosyst...

This paper analyzes the infrastructural integration of European news media with digital platforms and third-party service providers between 2015–2025. Reviewing current research, we note increased ...

tandfonline.com
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The democratic value of local information: How journalistic and non-journalistic sources relate to community attachment, civic engagement, and democratic attitudes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

The democratic value of local information: How journalistic and non-journalistic sources relate to...

This study investigates the relationship between local information use, community integration, and political attitudes within the German context. Drawing on rep...

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Subversive memory work: Reworking journalism and its digital archives to contest dominant memory regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Subversive memory work: Reworking journalism and its digital archives to contest dominant memory...

Media scholarship has long established journalism as a form of memory work. Yet conventional journalistic practices, particularly elite-centered sourcing and do...

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New platforms and shrinking trust: How Brazilians get their news. reutersinstitute.politics.ox…

How Brazilians get their news

The Digital News Report survey data reflects a country with falling interest and shrinking trust in news.

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
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What is Black journalism for? theguardian.com/news/2026/oc…

What is Black journalism for?

In honour of Claudia Jones’ memory, I reflect on how diasporic reporting provides community and avoids being defined by the western white experience

theguardian.com
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When Slate went back to its 1996 homepage, it learned some web design lessons for 2026. niemanlab.org/2026/10/when-s…

When Slate went back to its 1996 homepage, it learned some web design lessons for 2026

"I am a direct traffic girly and I know I'm not alone."

niemanlab.org
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When hackers become sources: Inside the new craft of reporting on hacked data. niemanlab.org/2026/10/when-h…

When hackers become sources: Inside the new craft of reporting on hacked data

"You've definitely seen the maturity of some hackers in how they approach the media. It's not just about posting things to Twitter like it might have been before."

niemanlab.org
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How news publishers can compete with AI overviews by reviving their archives. journalism.co.uk/how-publish…

How publishers can compete with AI overviews by reviving their archives

Copyright restrictions aren't the answer, and neither is despair. So stop treating the archive as something that just sits there waiting to be scraped

journalism.co.uk
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Guardian and Sun agree on ban for deceptive AI bots. pressgazette.co.uk/news/guar…

Guardian and Sun agree on ban for deceptive AI bots

CEOs and editors call for PM to give backing to AI transparency bill.

pressgazette.co.uk
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Video is now literally at the heart of The Sun newsroom. pressgazette.co.uk/publisher…

Video is now literally at the heart of The Sun newsroom

The Sun has made video the “anchor of the newsroom” by building a studio in the centre to showcase its journalists.

pressgazette.co.uk
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The Canary closes ‘indefinitely’ citing debanking and ‘malicious lies’. pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-…

The Canary closes 'indefinitely' citing debanking and 'malicious lies'

The Canary said it has become "unsustainable, both financially and operationally".

pressgazette.co.uk
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Privileged precarity: Working freelance in the TV industry. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Privileged precarity: Working freelance in the TV industry - Richard Wallis, 2026

Despite growing interest in the television industry’s freelance labour market, little is yet known about how workers interpret and manage the instability, inter...

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Negotiated Adaptability: How Peripheral Actors’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Shape Journalistic Practice. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Negotiated Adaptability: How Peripheral Actors’ Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence...

While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming newsroom practices globally, studies often examine journalists and peripheral actors in isolation, overlooking the reciproca...

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From Institutionalized Data to Inconsistent Practices: The Dynamics of Datafied Employee Evaluation in Journalistic Work. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

From Institutionalized Data to Inconsistent Practices: The Dynamics of Datafied Employee Evaluation...

Organizations are increasingly relying on data to evaluate work, yet the role of data in shaping managerial practices remains uneven. The quantitative turn, referred to as datafication, has been an...

tandfonline.com
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OSINV vs. Core International Crimes: Practices and Professional Identities of Ukrainian Journalists, Investigators, and Researchers Investigating Atrocities. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

OSINV vs. Core International Crimes: Practices and Professional Identities of Ukrainian Journalis...

In this article, we examine how the practices, technologies, and collaborations of Ukrainian journalists, investigators, and researchers investigating war crimes during the Russo-Ukrainian war—part...

tandfonline.com
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How Personal Curation Shapes Political Engagement on Social Media? Examining The Politics of Personal Curation Model. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

How Personal Curation Shapes Political Engagement on Social Media? Examining The Politics of...

Although individuals today have a wide range of media choices to engage in politics, recent investigations have revealed that many are increasingly avoiding new...

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More than core and periphery: how a mapping approach can add nuance to understanding the journalistic field. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

More Than Core and Periphery: How a Mapping Approach Can Add Nuance to Understanding the Journali...

The influx of new (digital) actors and the resulting changes to the composition of the journalistic field have attracted considerable attention from journalism scholarship in recent years. However,...

tandfonline.com
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Institutional sentinel: Journalistic role performance and the defense of media autonomy under democratic threat. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

Institutional sentinel: Journalistic role performance and the defense of media autonomy under...

This article develops the concept of the institutional sentinel to explain how journalists may temporarily reconfigure professional role performance when the in...

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