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Journalism Education The Journal of the Association for Journalism Education Volume six, number three, Winter 2017/18 Page 2 Journalism Education Volume 6 number 3 Journalism Education Journalism Education is the journal of the Association for Journalism Education a body representing educators in HE in the UK and Ireland. The aim of the journal is to promote and develop analysis and understanding of journalism education and of journalism, particu- larly when that is related to journalism education. Editors Mick Temple, Staffordshire University Chris Frost, Liverpool John Moores University Deirdre O’Neill Stuart Allan, Cardiff University Reviews editor: Tor Clark, Leicester University You can contact the editors at [email protected] Editorial Board Chris Atton, Napier University Olga Guedes Bailey, Nottingham Trent University David Baines, Newcastle University Guy Berger, UNICEF Jane Chapman, University of Lincoln Martin Conboy, Sheffield University Ros Coward, Roehampton University Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University Susie Eisenhuth, University of Technology, Sydney Ivor Gaber, Bedfordshire University Roy Greenslade, City University Mark Hanna, Sheffield University Michael Higgins, Strathclyde University John Horgan, Irish press ombudsman (retired) Sammye Johnson, Trinity University, San Antonio, USA Richard Keeble, University of Lincoln Mohammed el-Nawawy, Queens University of Charlotte An Duc Nguyen, Bournemouth University Sarah Niblock, Brunel University Bill Reynolds, Ryerson University, Canada Ian Richards, University of South Australia Verica Rupar, AUT University, Auckland Prasun Sonwalkar, Hindustan Times Linda Steiner, University of Maryland, USA Kate Wright, Roehampton University Sonja Merljak Zdovc, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Editorial Volume 6 number 3 Journalism Education page 3 Volume six number three: Contents Conference proceedings Turning the wheels on journalism’s monster truck of change, Sue Greenwood, 6 Senior Lecturer Journalism, Staffordshire University The existentialist Journalist, Philip Cowan, University of Hertfordshire 11 Fake News and Fake Sheiks, Victoria Neumark Jones, London Metropolitan Uni- 23 versity Journalism: A New World Order – Brexit, Trump, the Media (and the 2017 35 UK General Election), Tor Clark, Associate Professor in Journalism, University of Leicester, UK. Articles This sporting life: Why so few women sports writers? What can be done?, 42 Deirdre O’Neill independent researcher (formerly University of Huddersfield) and Suzanne Franks, City University Issues and Challenges to academic journalism and mass communication in 53 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Sajjad Ali, University of Swat, KPK, Pakistan; Muhammad Shahid, University of Peshawar, Pakistan; Muhammad Saeed, The Is- lamia University of Bahawlpur, Pakistan; Muhammad Tariq, The Islamia Univer- sity of Bahawlpur, Pakistan. Integrating industry collaboration into the journalism curriculum, Russell 64 Merryman, London College of Communication, University of the Art, London What value do academic qualifications have within a profession-oriented disci- 74 pline? Alison Baverstock, Kingston University; Debora Wenger, How the laughing, irreverent Briton trumped fact-checking: A textual analysis 87 of fake news in British newspaper stories about the EU, Imke Henkel, Univer- sity of Lincoln Book reviews 98 Reviews section edited by Tor Clark, University of Leicester, UK. Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations, edited by Robyn Goodman and Elanie Steyn, Review by David Baines, New- castle University, UK.; The History of the Provincial Press in England by Ra- chel Matthews, Coventry University, UK, Review by Tor Clark, University of Leicester, UK; Evolving Euroscepticisms in the British and Italian press by Paul Rowinski, Review by Alec Charles, University of Winchester, UK; Shouting in the Street, by Donald Trelford, Review by John Mair, lead editor of Brexit, Trump and the Media (Abramis, July 2017). Editorial Page 4 Journalism Education Volume 6 number 3 Contributors Sajjad Ali, Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Swat, KPK, Pakistan. Cell: 0344-9105107 E-mail: [email protected] Alison Baverstock is both a publisher and academic, an important combination in a pro- fession-orientated field like publishing studies. She has researched and written widely about the publishing industry and her books are both widely translated and used world- wide within industry and academia. She jointly set up MA Publishing at Kingston in 2005-6 and has been there ever since. Her industry-related research has explored self- publishing, marketing in publishing, and is now concentrating on the changing role of the author. Tor Clark is Associate Professor at Leicester University. He has been a journalist since the 1980s, spending the first part of his career in newspapers, working his way up from Reporter to Editor. He edited two regional newspapers and also specialised as a politi- cal journalist. He joined the academy in 2004 to set up DMU’s Journalism degree pro- grammes and moved to Leicester to become associate professor last year. He regularly writes and broadcasts about Journalism and Politics. Tor is co-editor of several of the Abramis Academic Publishing. hackademia series including Last Words? How can jour- nalism survive the decline of print? Philip Cowan is a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Hertfordshire. Sue Greenwood is a senior lecturer in the Journalism department at Staffordshire Univer- sity and course leader for the BA Hons in Games Journalism and PR. Her past research has been around the role of Facebook in the public sphere and she is currently completing work begun during the 2015 general election looking at political chat on candidates’ Fa- cebook pages, incorporating additional material from the 2017 “snap” election. However, her main research interest is in journalism itself and specifically the raggedy edges of where journalism might be going in the future. Future journalism is also the focus of her teaching – the relationships between technology, change and journalism. Imke Henkel is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Lincoln. She trained as a broadcast journalist at Deutschlandfunk, Germany. Since 1998 in London she has reported for top German national newspapers including Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit about British politics and economics. Between 2004 and 2014, she was the UK and Ireland correspondent for the German news magazine Focus. Victoria Neumark Jones is an Associate Professor of Journalism at London Metropoli- tan University and course leader for BA Journalism and BA Fashion Marketing. Victoria’s first publications were book reviews for the Listener and New Statesman. She went on to report and write features on arts, books and the school curriculum for the Times Educa- tional Supplement, where she was a contributing editor. Currently, she still writes features, reviews and columns for newspapers, magazines and websites, such as the Guardian, Editorial Volume 6 number 3 Journalism Education page 5 Fostercare Network and Slightly Foxed. She also contributes to and copy-edits academic reviews, PR materials and books, including The Magic Exercise and 1001 Books to Read Before You Grow Up. As well as London Met, she has taught at Goldsmiths, Middlesex University and City University. Deirdre O’Neill is an independent researcher (formerly senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield). She has carried out research into news values, journalism-source rela- tions, trade unions and the media, celebrity news, women’s sports coverage and represen- tation of women politicians. Her most recent research updates her work on news values with Tony Harcup, ‘What is news? News values revisited (again)’, Journalism Studies, 2016, open access availability online. Her email is [email protected] Suzanne Franks is professor and Head of the Journalism Department at City University in London. She is a former BBC journalist who has written about women and the work- place, in Having None of It: Women Men and the Future of Work (Granta) and published research for the Reuters Institute on women in the media, Women and Journalism. Russell Merryman is Senior Lecturer on BA (Hons) Journalism at London College of Communication, teaching across all three years of the course on practice and journalism theory; this includes overseeing the digital element of the Final Major Project, the website for Artefact magazine (artefactmagazine.com) and the second year units on Collaboration, Social Media and Data Journalism. Russell joined LCC after 21 years in broadcast and multimedia journalism, starting in BBC local radio before joining BBC News Online to develop interactive television services for the BBC News Channel, which won an RTS Award for Innovation in 2002, and programmes including Question Time, Newsnight and the 2001 General Election results special. In 2005 he joined Al Jazeera in Doha to help launch the new English channel and develop its digital strategy. He is currently studying for a PhD researching the media archaeology of interactive television. Muhammad Shahid, M.Phil Scholar at the Department of Journalism & Mass Commu- nication, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, Cell: 0333-9173711, E-mail: shahid152001@ yahoo.com Muhammad Saeed, M.Phil Scholar at the Department of Media Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawlpur, Pakistan, Cell: 0343-3146948, E-mail: msaeedafridi35@yahoo. com Muhammad Tariq, M.Phil Scholar