Co-Directors:
Professor Richard Lance Keeble
rkeeble@lincoln.ac.uk
Professor John Tulloch
jtulloch@lincoln.ac.uk
Aims and Objectives
- To examine both historical and new developments in the social, political and economic aspects of both mainstream and alternative journalism at a local, national and international level.
- To explore and compare the history and contemporary development of different models of journalism at a local, national and international level.
- To explore the different and constantly developing genres of journalism (literary journalism, peace journalism, community journalism, campaigning journalism, investigative/muckraking journalism, environmental journalism, diasporic journalism) in their historical, contemporary, national and international contexts.
- To examine the ethical problems identified within these and other genres of journalism, adopting a critical, evidence-based approach.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues at other universities, in the UK and overseas, and in organisations such as the Institute of Communication Ethics, MediaWise, the International Communications Forum, in order to extend our knowledge and understanding of different models of journalism and the roles of journalism in society.
- To undertake comparative research on journalism regulatory institutions, policies and professionalisation in the UK and in selected other countries.
- To situate our analyses of contemporary journalism and communication ethics in the context of technological convergence and international media business concentration.
- To draw on the specialist research interests of the staff and postgraduate researchers in the Lincoln School of Journalism in a range of innovative and imaginative collaborative projects (editing of texts, organisation of conferences, funding applications, development of research groups etc).
- To develop the international and national prestige of the Lincoln School of Journalism through its holding of major journalism archives – openly accessible to the public and to scholars.
Major research interests
The study of different models of journalism has led the Centre, in particular, to identify peace journalism as a significant area of research. (See Richard Keeble, John Tulloch, Florian Zollmann eds (2010) Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution, New York: Peter Lang). Research is fed directly into the teaching at the Lincoln School of Journalism. Thus, for example, out of the interests in peace journalism has emerged the new Journalism, War and International Human Rights MA. In addition, community journalism has become a significant presence for us with the advent of the faculty-based community radio station, Siren FM.
Links with Indian institutions and, within the UK, the developing area of diaspora studies has also led to a greater focus on South Asian journalism and the journalism of diaspora within and beyond the UK. Dr Ola Ogunyemi has established a diasporic research group, with partners in other universities and his book on media of African diasporas: production, content and audiences is to be published by Edwin Mellen. Professor Jane Chapman has made major contributions to the study of comparative media history: see Jane Chapman (2005) Comparative Media History, London: Polity.
Professor Chapman has also pioneered the study of gender in the history of print publications from a counter-hegemonic standpoint in both France and India, with research grants since 2007 from the British Academy, the ESRC and AHRC. Journalism, in fact, is one of the few schools in the university to have continuous research council grant funding since 2007. Given a national success rate of 10-13 per cent at obtaining grants, this is a considerable achievement and places Lincoln amongst the top universities internationally for journalism research.
Two significant archival projects also support the development of work in the history of investigative and campaigning journalism and local and community journalism. The Lincoln School of Journalism has developed a close relationship with the renowned newspaper and television journalist, John Pilger. It is supporting the redevelopment of Mr Pilger’s website and also beginning work on the creation of a comprehensive digital archive of all Mr Pilger’s work from the 1960s onwards. At a local level, the relocation of the Lincolnshire Echo has resulted in the LSJ accepting the entire Echo newspaper archive, comprising bound copies of daily newspapers from the mid 19th century to the 1970s, and microfiche copies thereafter.
A group of LSJ staff have developed strong research interests in the study of the relationship of journalism and literature, in part through the delivery of the module Journalism and Literature on Lincoln’s MA in Journalism and embodied in published work submitted for the last RAE. LSJ colleagues Professors Keeble, Tulloch, and Chapman, Nick Nuttall and Deborah Wilson collaborated in the production of the ground-breaking text: The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (Routledge, London, 2007). A follow-up publication, Global Literary Journalism, edited by Richard Keeble and John Tulloch is to be published by Northwestern University Press, Chicago.
Work submitted for the last RAE had a strong focus on issues of freedom of expression and journalism ethics and policy (for example, Professor Brian Winston’s work on freedom of expression, Professor Richard Keeble’s work on journalism ethics and editorship of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics ,for the Institute of Communication Ethics, of which he is a director, andProfessor John Tulloch’s work on press coverage of human rights abuses). This work is continuing.
Deborah Wilson is Chair of Research, International Division, Broadcast Education Association (US) 2011-2013
Research Centre Members
The following academic staff are Research Centre members:
Kate Allison (Research Assistant and PhD student)
Professor Jane Chapman (Research Professor in Communication and Convenor, Journalism and Communications History Group)
Barnie Choudhury (SL in Broadcast Journalism and PhD student)
Andrew David (Manager, Siren FM)
Anna Hoyles (PhD student)
Professor Richard Lance Keeble (Co-Director and Convenor, Journalism Policy, Ethics and Freedom of Expression Group)
Dr Ola Ogunyemi (PL in Journalism, Convenor, Diasporic Media Research Group)
Bryan Rudd (PL, Media Production)
Lioba Suchenwirth (PhD student)
Professor John Tulloch (Co-Director CRJ and Convenor Literary Journalism Group)
Rod Whiting (Lecturer, Broadcast Journalism)
Debbie Wilson (PL in Journalism, Convenor, Community Media and Citizen Journalism Research Group)
Professor Brian Winston, (Lincoln Chair)
Florian Zollmann (PhD student and assistant on John Pilger digital archive project)
CRJ provides a flexible envelope for five overlapping research groups drawing on the expertise of 15 staff and research students. These groups are:
Journalism and Communications History – Professor Jane Chapman, Professor Brian Winston; Professor John Tulloch, Kate Allison, Nick Nuttall, Anna Hoyles and colleagues in English and History
Literary Journalism Group – Professor John Tulloch, Professor Richard Keeble, Professor Jane Chapman, Nick Nuttall, Debbie Wilson, Florian Zollmann, Rod Whiting, Anna Hoyles
Diasporic Media Research Group – Dr Ola Ogunyemi, Barnie Choudhury, Professor Brian Winston, Professor Jane Chapman and others at associated universities
Community Media and Citizen Journalism Research Group – Debbie Wilson, Andrew David, Barnie Choudhury, Brian Rudd, Professor John Tulloch, Dr Ola Ogunyemi, Lioba Suchenwirth, Alex Lewczuk
Journalism Policy, Ethics and Freedom of Expression Group – Professor Richard Keeble, Professor John Tulloch, Professor Brian Winston, Barnie Choudhury, Professor Jane Chapman, Florian Zollmann
External Members
Re Diaspora Research Group:
Dr Nkerenweni Udoakah - University of UyoAbram Magowe - University of West England
Amita Jalloh - Freelance journalist
Souleymane Hassane - University of Poitiers
Prof David Schaefer - Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA
Prof Hilde van den Bulck - University of Antwerpen
Dr B. J. Noorlander - Ede Christian University
G. A. van den Burg - Ede Christian University
Herman Wasserman - Rhodes Unversity, South Africa
Isabelle Rigoni - University of Poitiers
Matilda Anderson - Open University
Romocea, Oana - Leeds Metropolitan University
Vera Peshkova - Russia Academy of Sciences
Wendy Willems - University of Wits, South Africa
Karina Horsti - University of Helsinki
Joanna Huntington - University of Lincoln
Community and Citizen Journalism Group
Lawrie Hallett - University of Westminster
Visiting Professors
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, columnist and broadcaster
Dorothy Byrne, head of Channel 4 News and Current Affairs
Bridget Kendall, BBC diplomatic correspondent
Phillip Knightley, award-winning investigative reporter
Angela Rippon, internationally acclaimed broadcaster
Visiting Fellows
Jon Grubb, Editor of the Lincolnshire Echo
Jane King, editor, Farmers Weekly
Charlie Partridge, Managing Editor, BBC Lincolnshire
External Research
2009-2011 Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) funded small research grant ‘Women, Press & Protest in British and French India, 1928-48’ £57,000 (FEC £71,000) Jane Chapman, www.lincoln.ac.uk/mht/research-mh/journalism/esrc_women_co.htm
Professor Chapman also led a British Academy-funded research project: "Feminising Influences on Mass Circulation : a comparative study of Le Petit Journal and the Daily Mail", www.lincoln.ac.uk/mht/research-mh/journalism/fimc_home.htm
2011 £15,000 Deborah Wilson secured from the ADM-HEA for the development project: civic journalism on community radio
Recent Publications
Jane Chapman
Gender, Citizenship, and the Media: Historical and Trans-national Perspectives, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke, monograph with Kate Lacey, Sussex University, 2012
Women and the press in British India 1928-34: a window for protest? International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 38, No. 8, with Kate Allison 2011
Female representation, readership and early tabloid properties, Australian Journal of Communication, Vol. 38, No.2, 2011
A Business Trajectory: Assessing Female Influence and Representation in Le Petit Journal,
Europe’s First Mass Circulation Daily’, Parcours de femmes: Twenty Years of Women in French Peter Lang, Oxford and Bern, 2011
Counter-hegemony, newspapers and the origins of anti-colonialism in French India, International Journal of Social Economics, 2011
Richard Lance Keeble
The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists From Defoe to Capote and Carter(edited with Sharon Wheeler), Routledge, London, 2007
Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution (edited with John Tulloch and Florian Zollmann) Peter Lang, New York
Ethics for Journalists, 2nd edition, Routledge, London, 2008
Afghanistan, War and Media: Deadlines and Frontlines (edited with John Mair) Arima, Bury St Edmunds
Media Values, editor, Troubador, Leicester, 2010
Ola Ogunyemi
The News Agenda of the Black African Press in the UK, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 5, May pp 630-654. Sage Publications, 2007
The Alternative Public Spaces for Black Arts in the UK: Challenges and Prospects, International Journal of Africana Studies, Volume 15, No. 1, 2010
Representation of Africa online: sourcing practice and frames of reference, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3, April pp. 457-478, 2011
Sourcing and representation routines at the black African press in the UK, Rigoni, Isabelle and Saitta, Eugenie (eds) Mediating cultural diversity in a globalised public space, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012
Media of African diasporas: Production, content and audiences, Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2012
John Tulloch
Tabloid Citizenship: The Daily Mirror and the invasions of Egypt (1956) and Iraq (2003), Journalism Studies, Vol.8, No 1, February 2007
Charles Dickens and the voices of journalism, The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter, eds Richard Keeble & Sharon Wheeler, Routledge, 2007
Normalising the Unthinkable: the British Press, Torture, and the Human Rights of Terrorist Suspects, Communication Ethics Now, ed. Richard Keeble, Leicester; Troubadour Publishing 2009
Conscience and the press: UK media coverage of conscientious objectors in World War 11, Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution, eds Richard Keeble, John Tulloch and Florian Zollmann, New York: Peter Lang, 2010
2011 ‘Pacifism and the press: UK newspaper representations of conscientious objectors in total war’ in Stephen Gilbert and Simon Mollan, Repertoires of Violence, Palgrave Macmillan (Forthcoming)
2012 ‘F.W.Wilson: renegade colonial newspaper editor or Indian nationalist hero?’ with Jane Chapman. Media History, 18 (3) 2012. ISSN 1368-8804 (Forthcoming)
Deborah Wilson
An unscathed tourist of wars: The journalism of Martha Gellhorn,Keeble, Richard and Wheeler, Sharon, eds, The Journalistic Imagination, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007
Paying the Piper: Funding Broadcast News, Chapman, Jane and Kinsey, Marie, eds, Broadcast Journalism: A Critical Introduction, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2008
A reverse perspective: putting practice into theory’ Paper presented jointly with Andrew David (Siren FM) at the IAMCR conference, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. July 2010
Winner of competitive paper category in Audio Division of Broadcast Education Association (US): Community Radio: Collaboration and Regulation,co-authored with Lawrie Hallett, University of Westminster, April 2011
Panel convenor and presenter at the Broadcast Education Association (US): A Brechtian Model: Community Radio’s Contribution to Radiocracy, April 2011
Brian Winston
Caging the Copycat: Wie neue Technologien eingeschrän werdem. Eine Fallstudie: Das Google
Book Search Settlement, Jens Schroeter et al., eds, Kulturen des Kopierschutzes II’ Navigationen: Zeitscrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften,. Siegen:univsi (Universitatsverlag Siegen).Jg.10 H.2 2010
English Roots of the Free Press, Christopher Sterling, ed., The Encyclopaedia of Journalism. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009
The Right to Offend: Free Expression in the 21st Century, London: Bloomsbury, 2011
Florian Zollmann
Fighting fanatics, killing people: The limits of corporate journalism during the US assault on Fallujah, Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 24-29, 2007
Is it either or? Professional ideology vs. corporate-media constraints, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 97-118, 2009
Iraq and Dahr Jamail: War reporting from a peace perspective, Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution, eds, Keeble, Richard Lance, Tulloch, John and Zollmann, Florian, New York: Peter Lang pp. 139-156, 2010
Doublethink in the mass media: Fallujah and the politics of human rights reporting, Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, Vol. 8, Nos. 1-2, pp. 25-31, 2011
John Pilger’s “Youth in Action” series as an example of literary journalism, Global Literary Journalism, eds. Keeble, Richard Lance and Tulloch, John, Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2012