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Charlie Beckett

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Charlie Beckett

@CharlieBeckett

Journalist. LSE Professor. Director, Polis, LSE's journalism think-tank. This is just a holding account here. Now on charliebeckett.bsky.social

East London, UK

Joined February 2008

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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Dec 18, 2024
2024 was JournalismAI's busiest ever: 6,000 training participants, Our Academy programmes in Spanish, Arabic, Korean (and English!), 40 JournalismAI Fellows, and 35 news orgs getting grants in our Innovation Challenge. All the details here lnkd.in/eJ-ms2b5
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Apr 28, 2024
The National Trust are running one of the best communications strategies I've ever seen to counter an Astro-turf far right assault - ethical PR courses will use this to teach
Celia Richardson
@CeliaRichards0n
Apr 28, 2024
Hi again Stefan. This private company now has 2 separate websites, 3 trading names, a spokesperson at a Dubai-funded thinktank, and lots of paid advertising. All trained on 1 UK charity. That’s what’s worrying. But our members remain a fantastic bunch, and I remain unscared.
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Feb 24, 2024
Hey BBC, this headline is a disgrace Lee Anderson: MP suspended from Tory party over criticism of London mayor
Lee Anderson: MP suspended from Tory party over 'Islamists' comments
From bbc.co.uk
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
May 4, 2024
This has been a bad couple of days for UK political journalism. So much self-referential, unsubstantiated gossip. I got the gossip too, but you don't have to publish it. So much attention to undeclared results, so little analysis of policy. Such bad extrapolation.
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
May 19, 2020
Fascinating new research on how people (mis) understand graphs about COVID19. Linear graphs make them much more fearful and they don't understand logarithmic charts. Food for thought for data viz journalists?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19 - LSE COVID-19
Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni, and Sebastián Guidi...
Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Nov 21, 2022
Iranian players not singing their national anthem. That takes guts. #ENGIRN
Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Apr 4, 2022
Utterly pointless piece of ideologically-motivated vandalism. No-one wants this to happen and there's no coherent rationale. The idea that @nadinedorries thinks Channel 4 should compete with Netflix and Amazon shows how little she knows about C4 or media economics
Rt Hon Nadine Dorries
@NadineDorries
Apr 4, 2022
Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon. 1/3
Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Nov 9, 2023
This is outstanding journalism calling out Braverman - not for her despicable ethics but for her sheer (dangerous) ignorance - BBC journalists should do the same
Brendan May
@bmay
Nov 9, 2023
Sky’s senior Ireland correspondent has just committed a murder live on @SkyPoliticsHub 💥 #BravermanOut
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Jan 21, 2023
This really is the most corrupt government: this is clearly a massive conflict of interest. Appalling that the Prime Minister and the chair of the BBC - figures who should embody proper public values - should be so unethical
Gabriel Pogrund
@Gabriel_Pogrund
Jan 21, 2023
EXCLUSIVE🚨w/@HarryYorke1 The BBC chairman helped arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800K for Boris Johnson weeks before then PM selected him for the role Johnson was told to end Richard Sharp’s involvement in his financial affairs by Cab Office 1/7 thetimes.co.uk/article/the-bb…
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Mar 15, 2020
I wish influential journalists like ⁦@Peston⁩ would insist that their anonymous sources for vital stories like this would go on the record. #Coronavirus is too important for the usual briefing games. itv.com/news/2020-03-1…
Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Sep 24, 2018
Extraordinary piece of investigative journalism by @BBCAfrica forensically examining a video from social media to track down the perpetrators of an atrocity. incredible thread.
BBC News Africa
@BBCAfrica
Sep 24, 2018
THREAD In July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. This is what we found...
Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Apr 28, 2024
Replying to @amonck
I think it does. It marshalls the sensible people and gives them ammo. It also breaks the bullies' confidence. I think polling reflects this. NT and RNLI more popular after the attacks.
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Mar 19, 2023
I am sick off the predatory philistines at the ⁦@Telegraph⁩ and elsewhere questioning the BBC licence fee. This series alone is worth the money. And it's a hugely patriotic project. Shame on the cultural vandals
BBC One - Wild Isles
From bbc.co.uk
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Charlie Beckett
@CharlieBeckett
Dec 8, 2021
I've been a fan of Ros and the Open Source teams at BBC for years now. Delighted to see their blend of traditional public service journalism and social/digital awareness getting mass audiences. They are a talented team but perhaps the editorial lessons are more basic? Mini 🧵
Ros Atkins
@BBCRosAtkins
Dec 6, 2021
The government says “there was not a party” at No 10 last December and that no COVID rules were broken. A week into the story, this is a new 5-min video on the gap between the government’s assurances and available evidence. Produced by Michael Cox. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
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