Stability and Trust in Journalism Workshop

As part of the celebrations for its 20th anniversary, IDEA The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds is pleased to announce the in-person workshop event: Stability and Trust in Journalism.

Trust is in short supply right across the public sphere. Nowhere is this more apparent than in journalism, where it has cratered in recent years.Since fewer and fewer citizens are disposed to believe what comes through established channels for news and comment, it is becoming more and more difficult for journalists to perform the critical functions they serve in representative democratic systems. There are, of course, many reasons why this situation has emerged, and why it continues to deteriorate, but we propose to examine it as a crisis in political and social stability.

This one-day workshop in the IDEA Centre will explore the relationship between stability and journalism, ask what light it can shed on the current predicament, and consider how employing this particular conceptual lens might inform efforts to repair it. This will be an inter-disciplinary event, drawing not only on philosophy, but also communication studies and first-hand experience of journalism regulation.

The speakers will be Jonathan Heawood (Public Interest New Foundation, and formerly IMPRESS), Julie Firmstone (University of Leeds), Dorota Mokrosinska (Leiden University), and Carl Fox (University of Leeds).

A limited number of spaces are available, please contact Carl Fox (ca.fox@leeds.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending.