Charlie Beckett

Charlie Beckett is director of Polis, the forum for debate and research into journalism and society at the London School of Economics and the London College of Communication. He is the author of SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era (Polity, 2012). His website is here

WikiLeaks and network-era news

The WikiLeaks storm of 2010 seems to be spent. But as a symptom of what is happening to journalism the WikiLeaks phenomenon carries profound significance, says Charlie Beckett.

By Charlie Beckett

/ 15 Aug 2012

State 2.0: a new front end?

Instead of a revolution in journalism or politics through new media technologies, we are witnessing the emergence of a synthesis between existing organisations and novel practices through more networked processes.

By Charlie Beckett

/ 7 Sep 2009

SuperMedia: the future as “networked journalism”

From bloggers in China to "netroots" activists in the United States, new forms of journalism are reshaping political communications - and therefore politics itself. The success of Barack

By Charlie Beckett

/ 10 Jun 2008

The media and Africa: doing bad by doing "good"?

One of the high points of my journalistic career was standing next to Jon Snow in Makerere University's (empty) swimming-pool as we broadcast live from an evangelical rally

By Charlie Beckett

/ 18 Jun 2007