Does Brexit affect how universities should be teaching journalism?

Many people felt that journalism failed them in its coverage of the EU referendum, writes Martin Buckley. Should things be done differently in the lecture hall?

Published on
July 6, 2016
Last updated
February 16, 2017
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I didn't realise tattooed citizens were so pro Brexit. Thanks for adding another stereotype for tattooed people. Including irrelevant adjectives to add punch to an article or to pad sentences is another thing that should be included in the way you teach journalism because within 20 words you managed to alienate me from what looked to be an interesting article.
A very interesting article. The concepts of 'fair and balanced' and 'objectivity' run deeply through traditional journalism education in the UK. However, this is increasingly under attack from a heavily polarised and, frankly, nasty debate on social media. This is made worse by well funded and organised campaign groups who deliberately seek to mislead and distort the public debate with 'facts' that are simply wrong. As the writer suggests, the standard of EU debate as was played out in mainstream media was truly appalling. In an era of post-truth politics, where emotion have become more important than reason, we need good journalism more than ever.

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