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SUMMARY:Alastair Campbell: Why journalism\, and why it matters in a world 
 in flux - Alastair Campbell
DTSTART:20131113T170000Z
DTEND:20131113T183000Z
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CONTACT:CRASSH
DESCRIPTION:This is the first of two public lectures given by Alastair Cam
 pbell\, writer\, campaigner and former communications director to British 
 Prime Minister Tony Blair\, and Humanitas Visiting Professor of Media 2013
  at CRASSH.\n\nIn these lectures and in a subsequent symposium\, Campbell 
 will expand on and qualify his statement to the Leveson Inquiry two years 
 ago: ‘…though I admire many journalists and much journalism… I also 
 believe that there are serious and endemic shortcomings in the culture\, p
 ractices and ethics of the British media’.\n\nBut he will also defend th
 e role of journalism as a central pillar of democracy\, and explain why de
 spite those shortcomings he is optimistic that politics and media can adap
 t to the changes sweeping through both.\n\nThis first lecture on 13 Novemb
 er will explore ‘Why journalism\, and why it matters in a world in flux
 ’. Campbell will discuss the importance\, power and attraction of journa
 lism\, its rapidly changing environment and practice\, and its centrality 
 to a liberal democracy.\n\nFurther details: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/ev
 ents/25150 
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\, Room LG19
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