Unter der Leitung eines der weltweit anerkanntesten Journalismus-Forscher, Colin Sparks, findet an der Westminster University vom 7. - 8. Juni 2011 die  dritte internationale Jahrestagung "What makes good journalism" des dortigen Journalistik-Fachbereiches statt.

• Im Folgenden zunächst das "Paper" (die Zusammenfassung), das Prof. Dr. Köhler im Januar 2011 in London beim "Call for Papers" einreichte und auf dessen Basis er im Februar als Redner zur Konferenz eingeladen wurde.
• Anschließend die Ausschreibung des Kongresses mit den wichtigsten Themen sowohl der Konferenz als auch des Journalismus derzeit.

Prof. Dr.  Köhler wird den Ablauf und die Ergebnisse der Tagung selbstverständlich in seine Kurse einfließen lassen.

Abstract for the Third Annual Conference of the Department of Journalism „What makes good journalism?“

Prof. Dr Sebastian Köhler

Narrativity or narrativism in modern journalism?

This paper discusses some new aspects of storytelling as one mode in contemporary journalism and focuses on whether that storytelling is developed more in appropriate (balanced) or rather in exaggerated (one-sided) ways.

Narratives are a very traditional part of human communication - and of journalism as well. They can be distinguished from other types of journalism such as traditional news or comments.

My research group at Leipzig University in Germany discovered that a narrative perspective of news items (instead of a classical informational one) makes it easier - especially for younger people and those with less formal education - to understand and to remember basic parts of the respective news items.

In my current paper I analyse the increasing incidence of narrative parts in specific areas of German TV News from a normative point of view: How does the expansion of narrative items influence the diversity of these news programmes, concerning both: the content (hard news - soft news) and the display format. My paper argues - for both theoretical and pragmatical reasons - in favour of (more) external and internal diversity as important features of any „good journalism“ now and in the future.

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Call for Papers: What makes good journalism?

Date: 7 and 8 June 2011
Venue: 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS

The Third Annual Conference of the Department of Journalism at the University Westminster in association with the British Journalism Review.

Our previous conferences examined the problems facing journalism and then possible solutions. These concerns were principally economic; the apparent failure of old business models and the search for new ones to allow quality journalism to continue.

This, our third conference poses the question: What it is we are trying to preserve and encourage? 

What is good journalism and where is it to be found? Is it in the institutional practices and professional culture of established news organisations such as the BBC, CNN, and more recently Al-Jazeera; is it in the great national newspapers? Does the future instead reside elsewhere in new developments in online news?  Are new technologies setting new standards? Should standards be encouraged or enforced? How will tomorrow’s criteria for “good” journalism differ from yesterday’s?

A wide range of approaches are encouraged, theoretical, practical, and historical. Topics to be addressed might include (but are not confined to):

• Public relations and the news agenda
• The impact of multimedia journalism
• The challenge of 24 hour news channels
• The future of original reporting
• The interplay between commentary and ‘facts’
• Citizen journalism and new sources of information
• The role of the academy a) in training journalists and b) in analysing and theorising on the news media
• The future of investigative and “watchdog” journalism
• The role of professional organisations and trades unions in the maintenance of journalistic standards
• Regulation and self regulation
• Questions of ethics
• Does impartiality matter?

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