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about abramis |
abramis is a new academic publisher that
specialises in the innovative on-demand publishing model.
Combining experience of the traditional publishing industry
with expertise in new technologies and processes, as an academic publisher we offer a
wide range of publishing services and solutions that are designed
to meet the needs of today's academic authors.
Focusing on academic titles and programme related materials
for students, the publishing model delivers benefits to the author
in terms of premium royalty payments and also in the time taken
to bring a title to market, which can be under four weeks for
a finished manuscript.
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After Leveson? The Future for British Journalism
Edited by John Mair
Was Lord Justice Leveson really the harbinger of the new and the end of the newspaper world as we know it and as he was portrayed to be? The War for Leveson's Ear has been fought by Britain's newspaper industry in the High Court in the Strand over eight months of open hearings. The cacophony surrounding his Report pre and post publication on November 29th 2012 was a sight and sound to behold.
Contributors include:
Dorothy Byrne Head of News and Current Affairs Channel Four; Hugo De Burgh Professor & Director China Media Centre University of Westminster; Duncan Campbell Former Crime Correspondent, The Guardian; Bernard Clark Inventor Watchdog BBC, Hard News Channel Four; Paul Connew, Former Editor Sunday Mirror; Peter Cole Professor Former Editor Sunday Correspondent, Deputy Editor The Guardian; Sir Harold Evans Former Editor Sunday Times/Times; Ivor Gaber Professor City University; Phil Harding former Controller, Editorial Policy BBC; Nicholas Jones former BBC industrial and political correspondent; Natalie Peck Researcher Hacked Off Campaign; Julian Petley Professor of Screen Media Brunel University; Dominic Ponsford, Editor Press Gazette; Peter Preston Former Editor The Guardian; Richard Sambrook Director Centre for Journalism Cardiff University former Director News, Director Sport and Director Global News BBC; Raymond Snoddy Former Media Editor The Times, Presenter Hard News Channel Four/Newswatch BBC News; Mick Temple Professor Staffordshire University; John Tulloch Professor Lincoln University
Roy Greenslade's Guardian serialisation:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/apr/04/leveson-report-newspapers
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History of the NASUWT
by Nigel de Gruchy
"Give us justice or we fight!" was the 1919 clarion call of the Union's founding leaders which echoed down the years. Whether it was outrageous denial of recognition, or low pay with negotiations conducted in secrecy, or voluntary 'duties' taken for granted, or controversial hikes in pension contributions (1956 and 1972 are being repeated today) or being expected to teach disruptive pupils in impossible circumstances, the NASUWT believed in the unique feature distinguishing a genuine trade union from other types of organisation – the willingness of employees to challenge by direct action gross injustice perpetrated by employers and government.
However, the NASUWT preferred compromise and consensus. National incomes policies and social contracts were supported, subject to fairness and even application to all. Third party intervention in salary negotiations proved more productive than the 'jungle of free collective bargaining'. The History of the NASUWT ends on an optimistic and positive note welcoming the Social Partnership with the Labour Government in the early 2000s. The wanton destruction of that productive relationship between government and all but one of the school teacher unions after the general election of 2010 by the Coalition Parties is in the words of the author "reckless and deplorable".
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The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial
Revised Second Edition
edited by John Mair & Richard Keeble
Hackgate is the biggest scandal to engulf the mainstream press in decades. What started as a small bush fire – with News of the World royal editor and his private detective friend Glenn Mulcaire being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure in 2007 for hacking illegally into the phones of the royal family and others – became a forest fire destroying countless reputations (and the NoW) in its wake.
The first edition, published in February 2012, soon became the standard text on the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press.
It was serialised over twenty five days in the Media Guardian and read by Lord Justice Leveson himself. This second edition updates the thirty original contributions and includes new material from Sir Harold Evans, Roy Greenslade and Ray Snoddy on Leveson and after. Other contributors include Chris Atkins, Steven Barnett, Patrick Barrow, Teodora Beleaga, Daniel Bennett, Damian Paul Carney, Brian Cathcart, Glenda Cooper, the Co-ordinating Committee for Media Reform, Tim Crook, Sean Dodson, Sallyanne Duncan, Chris Frost, Ivor Gaber , Tony Harcup, Phil Harding, Huw L. Hopkins, Mike Jempson, Nicholas Jones, Tim Luckhurst, Kevin Marsh, Ben McConville, Jackie Newton, Eamonn O'Neill, Richard Peppiatt, Wayne Powell, Stewart Purvis, Alan Rusbridger, Justin Schlosberg, Kate Smith, Judith Townend, John Tulloch and Barry Turner.
Edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair, it is a 'must read' for all concerned about journalism standards and all involved in journalism and journalism education – either as teachers or students.
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| The Act Book of St Katherine's Gild, Stamford, 1480-1534 Launch event at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. Principal guest will be Dr Ruth Kennedy (Royal Holloway) who will give a lecture on Katherine of Alexandria and Her Gild at Stamford. |
| Mirage in the Desert? Reprting the 'ArabSpring' A launch event for Mirage in the Desert at Coventry University London Campus, East India House will take place on Tuesday 11 October 2011. The event brings together The Media Society, BBC College of Journalism, Lincoln Journalism and Coventry Conversations for a debate on:
LIBYA AND THE ARAB SPRING; THE MEDIA AFTERMATH
Panellists include:
Raymond Snoddy (Chair)
Sarah Whitehead, Head of International News, Sky
Ben De Pear, Foreign Editor, Channel Four News
Bill Neely, International Editor, ITV News
Kevin Bakhurst, Deputy Head BBC newsroom |
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After Leveson? - The Future for British Journalism
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The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial
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