Beckett, Charlie


Professor Charlie Beckett  

Department

Position held

Department of Media and Communications

Director of POLIS

POLIS

Director

Experience keywords:

blogging; online media; television; newspapers; new media; Africa media; governance; politics; radio; development; journalism; internet; American Media; international media; American politics

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Charlie Beckett has 20 years' experience of international journalism at the BBC and ITN's Channel 4 News. He is the author of SuperMedia: saving journalism so it can save the world (Blackwell 2008). He is a specialist in media change: how the news media is changing and the rise of online journalism and citizen journalism.

He has also researched: UK politics and media; American politics and media; development and media; African media and democracy; financial journalism; journalism ethics; public service broadcasting; war and conflict reporting; media and Muslims.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and CultureInformation TechnologyLawMedia Technology and New MediaPolicy and Regulatory BodiesTelecommunications

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Europe; Asia; USA; UK; Africa; America

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)780 878 6573

Alt phone number:

+44 (0)20 7107 5249

Publications

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2013

Beckett, Charlie (2013) Can journalism count as an academic research output? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2012

Beckett, Charlie (2012) Revenge of the evil empire and why I’m backing Darth Vader: my case against statutory newspaper regulation. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2012) There is an immediate mess to be cleared up and then the BBC needs longer term restructuring. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2012) The BBC, Savile, Panorama and Newsnight: closed system, closed minds? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2012) The art of the impossible: Cameron and the reshuffle. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2012) Communicating for change: media and agency in the networked public sphere. POLIS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Beckett, Charlie (2012) Brown at Leveson: the politicisation of the press. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2012) What we’ve learnt from a weird week in politics. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2012) Who is to blame when Africa starves: media, governments or NGOs? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2011) WikiLeaks: news in the networked era. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780745659756

Beckett, Charlie (2011) Life’s not fair: the public’s perception of cuts is what matters in the end. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie and Cammaerts, Bart and Carrera, Leandro N. and Leunig, Tim (2011) All change in the UK’s welfare state?: first thoughts on what policy commitments should go, and which should not. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2011) Julian Assange: the unauthorised autobiography. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2011) ‘Social Mobility’ is now nonsense – especially in a time of cuts and income reduction. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2011) Taming the feral beasts of the media requires greater transparency from government, but can Downing Street ever be honest? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2011) A Newscorp takeover of BSkyB will not significantly shift media power: blocking the deal could set a poor precedent. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2010

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Can you bust the media drug myths? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Globalisation, the media and UK communities. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, UK

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Labour lost, newspaper coverage of the 2010 general election. In: Kavanagh, Dennis and Cowley, Philip, (eds.) The British general election of 2010. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230521896

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Did Ed’s first speech change the story? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) It’s beastly being Blair: lessons for political media from A journey. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) The value of networked journalism. Polis, London, UK

Beckett, Charlie (2010) The Prime Minister’s salary is the size of Wales. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) How do you report a hung parliament? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Bouçek, Françoise and Jones, George W. and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Travers, Tony and Beckett, Charlie and Hosein, Gus and Carrera, Leandro N. and Leunig, Tim (2010) LSE election experts reflect on the election result. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Is this how history isn’t made? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Can you report tactical voting in a balanced way? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Brown and the ‘bigoted woman’: the control freak caught out. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Process not policy: has the media ignored the issues for the X factor? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Tonight a tv programme becomes the most important moment in British politics for 25 years. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) TV is the new media for this election: connecting people & politicians. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Adam Boulton: here comes the election storm. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Politics as theatre: now let the real drama begin. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) Election ‘10: the media matters but which media? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Beckett, Charlie (2010) How Labour will win with old TV and new media (says Douglas Alexander). Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2009

Livingstone, Sonia and Buckingham, David and Davies, Chris and Das, Ranjana and Beckett, Charlie (2009) "Digital natives": a myth? POLIS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2008

Beckett, Charlie (2008) SuperMedia: saving journalism so it can save the world. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK. ISBN 9781405179249

Beckett, Charlie and Mansell, Robin (2008) Crossing boundaries: new media and networked journalism. Communication, culture & critique, 1 (1). pp. 92-104. ISSN 1753-9129

2007

Beckett, Charlie (2007) The practicalities and politics of online journalism. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Beckett, Charlie and Kyrke-Smith, Laura (2007) Development, governance and the media: the role of the media in building African society: a POLIS report. POLIS, London

2006

Beckett, Charlie (2006) Killing journalism. London School of Economics and Political Science, London

Chouliaraki, Lilie and Beckett, Charlie and Mansell, Robin (2006) Morality and media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone. In:Morality and media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone (16th October 2006 : LSE).

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'WikiLeaks: News In The Networked Era' explains the history and significance of WikiLeaks as a challenge to mainstream media and politics in the context of new digital political communications.

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