Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK
Today’s episode is an insightful discussion on the impact of crime reporting on society as Marianne Colbran shares her research on the changes in crime reporting over the past 40 years, including the impact of the Leveson Report and the ‘fake news’ era.
The panel also explores how working practices and lack of diversity in newsrooms have led to representational harm and the ‘othering’ of communities, and how nonprofits are working to reverse this.
About the Authors
Dr Marianne Colbran
Marianne Colbran is a Visiting Fellow in Criminology at the LSE. Her books include, Media Representations of Police and Crime and Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK, which will be published in June 2022. Marianne has also been a television script writer for thirteen years, including working as a staff writer on the British police show, ‘The Bill’.
Moses McKenzie
Moses McKenzie is of Jamaican heritage and grew up in Easton in Bristol, UK, where he still lives and writes full-time. An Olive Grove in Ends is an excerpt from his debut novel. The cast is drawn from a Jamaican-Somali community in Bristol. It focuses on the turbulent life of Sayon, a young drug dealer who dreams of starting a new life in prosperous Clifton. It’s a tale of religious faith and friendship, blood money and murder.
About the Speaker
Bill Thomas
Bill Thomas was the first Black male police officer in South Yorkshire. He’s retired now but last year after 40 years of public service, he returned to his station for Channel 4 to record and retrace the battles, the racism, and the friendships of a remarkable career.
About the Chair
Dawn Cameron
Dawn Cameron has attained Master of Arts degrees in Social and Public Policy and Creative Writing, and is currently in her second year of a PhD at the University of Leeds, focusing on formulations of race, place, and culture-led regeneration in the operationalisation of Bradford City of Culture 2025. She is also director of her own research and evaluation company, Cameron & Ltd, which specialises in working with clients in the arts, culture, and heritage sectors. She and her associates tend to work on projects that seek to deliver social and cultural change.
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