REVIEW: Media must build and retain trust

Philip Cass

doi:10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1140

REVIEW: Media must build and retain trust

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v26i2.1140 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 293-294

Author(s):

Philip Cass

Keyword(s):

Early Morning ◽

Current Affairs ◽

Worth Reading ◽

The Uk

A Day Like Today, by John Humphrys. London, UK: William Collins, 2019. 400 pages. ISBN 9780007415595 400pp. JOHN HUMPHRYS will be less well known outside the UK than his contemporary from BBC World, John Simpson, but his autobiography is an entertaining and informative recounting of his career and well worth reading. For more than three decades he presided over BBC Radio 4’s flagship early morning current affairs programme, Today. Like Jeremey Paxman on BBC2’s Newsnight, he built a reputation for taking no prisoners in interviews and for having a keen sense of what makes good radio journalism.

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Recommendations of the Puttnam Report1

A Future for Public Service Television ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9781906897710.003.0048 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

Public Service ◽

Television System ◽

Entry Level ◽

The Public ◽

Faith Based ◽

Current Affairs ◽

The Uk ◽

Children's Programming

This chapter presents the recommendations of the Puttnam Report. It covers recommendations for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, and Channel 5. It proposes the establishment of a new fund for public service content. It also discusses the dissatisfaction with the performance of public service television from ethnic, regional, national and faith-based minorities; the failure of the public service television system to reflect the changing constitutional shape of the UK such that audiences in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the English regions; the decline in investment in some of the genres traditionally associated with public service television: arts, current affairs and children's programming; and the need for a more consolidated approach to maximising entry-level opportunities and increasing investment in training and professional development at all levels of the industry.

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Who shares news on mobile messaging applications, why and in what ways? A cross-national analysis

Mobile Media & Communication ◽

10.1177/2050157920958442 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 205015792095844

Author(s):

Antonis Kalogeropoulos

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Breaking News ◽

Main Motivation ◽

News Stories ◽

Current Affairs ◽

The Us ◽

The Uk ◽

National Analysis ◽

News Sharing ◽

Cross National

Recently, in many countries, the use of mobile messaging applications for news has risen while the use of Facebook for news has declined. The purpose of this study is to identify who shares news on messaging applications, why and in what ways. Findings from a survey and focus groups in the US, the UK, Germany, and Brazil show that (a) the main motivation for news users to share news in these spaces is context collapse; their aversion to news sharing on an open network like Facebook, (b) the anytime/anywhere mobile affordance facilitates their need for private news sharing, (c) news stories chosen for sharing usually revolve around niche interests or breaking news events and not politics and current affairs, (d) news sharers are likely to be young, and to trust in news found on social media in the Western countries of our sample, while they tend to be older and partisan in Brazil where 38% of the population shares news on mobile messaging apps during an average week.

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Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus RNA detection in different matrices under typical storage conditions in the UK

Veterinary Record ◽

10.1136/vr.105312 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 185 (1) ◽

pp. 21-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jinghui Fan ◽

Priscilla F Gerber ◽

Ana Cubas Atienzar ◽

Lysan Eppink ◽

Chong Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Storage Condition ◽

Early Morning ◽

Respiratory Syndrome Virus ◽

Blood Collection ◽

Practical Reasons ◽

Sample Type ◽

Sample Collection ◽

Blood Samples ◽

Fta Cards ◽

The Uk

In the UK, approximately 40 per cent of the pig breeding herds are outdoors. To monitor their porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) status, blood is collected commonly from piglets around weaning. Sample collection in British outdoor pigs often occurs during the early morning hours when the piglets tend to accumulate inside sheltered areas. For practical reasons, dry cotton swabs are occasionally used for blood collection and stored at room temperature until arrival in the laboratory. Detection of PRRSV RNA is a function of viral concentration, sample type and storage condition. To evaluate a possible impact of the sampling protocol on PRRSV1 detection, experimentally spiked blood samples using three dilutions of a representative PRRSV1 strain were prepared. In addition, blood samples from pigs naturally infected with PRRSV were obtained from a PRRSV-positive British herd. Spiked blood and blood from infected pigs were used to obtain sera, dry or wet (immersed in saline) polyester or cotton swabs and FTA cards. The different samples were stored for 24 hours, 48 hours or 7 days at 4°C or 20°C and tested by a real-time reverse transcriptase PRRSV PCR assay. Under the study conditions, the best matrix was serum (96.7 per cent), followed by wet swabs (78 per cent), dry swabs (61.3 per cent) and FTA cards (51 per cent). Polyester swabs (76 per cent) showed a better performance than cotton swabs (63.3 per cent). The reduction in sensitivity obtained for swabs and FTA cards was particularly high at low viral concentrations. The results indicate that wet polyester swabs should be used whenever possible.

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Letters to the Editor

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.47.2.474 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 474-474

Author(s):

Margaret F. Gutelius

Keyword(s):

Dental Health ◽

Early Morning ◽

Letters To The Editor ◽

Worth Reading

I read with pleasure Dr. Hans Neumann's refreshing article on pica (Pediatrics, 46: 441). We should be grateful to him for adding spice to the pica problem. Any discussion which stimulates a reappraisal of one's prejudices is well worth reading. It is easy for me to accept that chewing on hard substances throughout life promotes dental health. I am all for it, but I don't expect this habit to be generally accepted except by those types who become early morning joggers.

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Raising the profile of indexing: National Indexing Day 2021 in the UK

The Indexer The International Journal of Indexing ◽

10.3828/indexer.2021.29 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 303-312

Author(s):

Ann Kingdom

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Early Morning ◽

Online Environment ◽

Late Evening ◽

The Uk

National Indexing Day (#indexday), inaugurated in 2017 to celebrate the foundation of the Society of Indexers and promote the profession of indexing, again had to take place virtually in 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, indexers are nothing if not imaginative, engaging with social media with enthusiasm and generating ‘likes’ and ‘retweets’ from early morning until late evening. After setting out the background to National Indexing Day (NID), this article gives a flavour of how NID 2021 helped to raise the profile of indexing and indexers in the online environment.

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