IMPRESS Podcast

In this episode of the IMPRESS podcast, our Head of Regulation Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana speaks to Zlatina Siderova, Project Manager at the European Journalism Centre (EJC), about hate speech and journalism in the online world, as well as the Data-driven Approach to Countering Hate Speech (DACHS) project, co-organised by the EJC and media monitoring company DataScouting. The European Journalism Centre seeks to build a sustainable, ethical and innovative future for journalism through grants, events, training and media development. Find out more about DACHS here.

In the latest episode of the IMPRESS podcast, IMPRESS Complaints and Investigations Manager Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana speaks to freelance journalist and member of the Transparency Project, Louise Tickle, about the challenges and impediments faced by journalists when accessing and reporting on the family courts. The Transparency Project seeks to make family justice clearer by explaining and discussing family law and family courts in England and Wales and signposting useful resources to help people better understand the system and the law. Find out more at www.transparencyproject.org.uk/

IPSOS Mori CEO Ben Page on MRS-IMPRESS joint guidance on 'Using Polls and Surveys in your Journalism.'

Following on from the recent publication of joint IMPRESS-Market Research Society guidance for journalists on using polls and surveys when reporting, in this latest episode of the IMPRESS podcast our COO Ed Procter speaks to IPSOS Mori CEO Ben Page about the accuracy of polling in the 2019 general election. Ben discusses the legacy of the 2015 election for the polling industry and shares how pollsters have adapted to ensure their results are as accurate as possible, as well as just how well journalists did when it came to reporting poll and survey findings this time around.

   In this latest episode of the IMPRESS podcast we speak to Harriet Kingaby, Co-Chair of the Conscious Advertising Network about the background to how the network came to be, its vision and mission, as well as what it means to be an ethical advertiser and how smaller and independent publishers can get involved and become 'conscious' advertisers! 

Co-founders and co-CEOs of NewsGuard Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, and Vice President of Business Development Anna-Sophie Harling, discuss how they aim for "using journalism to fight false news, misinformation and disinformation”. NewsGuard developed a rating system which results in a “nutrition label”, with 9 key criteria. How does it work? What is their experience in the US so far? What are their next steps in the UK and Europe, and how can independent news organisations engage with them?

IMPRESS CEO Jonathan Heawood is joined by digital media entrepeneur Mark Little to discuss his new project Kinzen, a platform with the mission of 'giving every citizen a daily news experience that earns their trust'. They also discuss how to connect independent networks of publishers with their real community of interest.

Jonathan Heawood, CEO of IMPRESS, is joined by experts Paul Wragg (University of Leeds) and Thomas Bennett (City University) to discuss the case of Sir Cliff Richard against the BBC, and what this adds to the broader debate around media coverage of ongoing investigations and privacy.

IMPRESS CEO Jonathan Heawood and IMPRESS Complaints & Investigations Manager Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana discuss the latest arbitration award. Plus, highlights from our webinar on 'Strategies for local news in the digital world' with Joy Jenkins(Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) and Douglas McCabe (Enders Analysis).