*Newsroom CPR (Covering Populism Right)* @panievsky.bsky.social @michaelhauser.bsky.social 📆 23 June 2026 ✏️ shorturl.at/jyaOd

Can research tell us how to better cover Trump, Netanyahu, Milei, Modi or Farage? Join us for the hybrid launch of *Newsroom CPR* (Covering Populism Right): a new, practical guide for journalists who wish to cover populists more responsibly. 📆 Tue, 23 June, 6pm ✏️ Free register: shorturl.at/NccEg

*Newsroom CPR (Covering Populism Right)* @panievsky.bsky.social @michaelhauser.bsky.social 📆 23 June 2026 ✏️ shorturl.at/jyaOd

🏆 Our brilliant Rana Arafat has just won the 2026 Best Article Award in Intercultural Communication from the @icahdq.bsky.social! The article, co-authored with Sahar Khamis, explores the success and virality of pro- and anti-hijab feminist activism online: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🗞️ New open access publication out with Journalism Studies! Solidarity and collaboration between journalists are essential if journalism is to survive this dreadful moment. But reporters and newsrooms don't always see it this way. Why? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don't miss our @citystgeorges.bsky.social gang at the upcoming @journalismfestival.com in Perugia! @janemartinson.bsky.social @julieposetti.bsky.social @manisha.bsky.social @panievsky.bsky.social Full programme here, come say hi if you're around :) www.journalismfestival.com #ijp26

After attacks on several Iranian campuses, Iranian forces warn they could target American universities in the region. Read our latest @nytimes.com 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 #IranWar‌

Looking forward to hosting former journalist and excellent scholar, Prof @cherian.bsky.social (Hong Kong Baptist University), who will be joining us to discuss his new book on journalism and polarisation right after Easter! 📆 24 April 2026, 12 PM, Room AG05 ✏️ All welcome to join us

Tomorrow, March 26th, 26 years since Vladimir Putin's first Russian presidential election win, I will be talking about my book 'The Return of Russia' new from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Still some (free) places left. Details below. In London? please come along! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Are you in London tomorrow evening? Then please join @lucyaash.bsky.social and me @gowerst-books.bsky.social where we will be discussing my new book, 'The Return of Russia', just published by @yalebooks.bsky.social . Everyone welcome! Details of tickets below

City Sounds — the student podcast platform run by MA Podcasting students at City St George’s — is returning. Stay tuned. New content coming soon.

🗽 We had such a blast celebrating Reporting America with @jonsopel1.bsky.social, @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social, @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & @katietarrant.bsky.social, joined by @glendacooper.bsky.social & @usempire.bsky.social to talk conspiracies, disinformation & trolling in Trump's America!

Excited for this upcoming event with one of my journalism heros at the Perugia Journalism Festival! Join us if you can 👉👉

Catching up on my notes from the UK Media Freedom Forum at @journalismatcity.bsky.social last week. This one was chilling - in multiple ways. @julieposetti.bsky.social presented some deeply concerning research about the links between online harassment of female #journalists and physical attacks.

My new piece in the conversation explains why water infrastructure is becoming a critical vulnerability in Iran and across the Persian Gulf 💧 @journalismatcity.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com 🙏 #desalination #IranWar‌

Last week I sat in on a panel discussion featuring experts on big tech, politics and misinformation, including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of @thenerve.news and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social. It wasn’t a cheerful discussion. But it was a thoughtful and worrying one. Here’s my notes:

Don't miss this stellar lineup! @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social (BBC), @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social (@theguardian.com), @jonsopel1.bsky.social (@thenewsagents.co.uk), & @katietarrant.bsky.social (@thetimes.com) will be talking to @glendacooper.bsky.social on reporting the US. ✏️ shorturl.at/RJ0m8

Our @sanammahoozi.bsky.social on @forbes.com 👉

Today! come join us 👉

Excited to have with us the rockstar scholar, Editor-in-Chief @ijoc-usc.bsky.social, ex-President @icahdq.bsky.social, author of too many groundbreaking books to name them here, and a vocal champion of globalising media studies - @swaisbord.bsky.social! 📆 Wednesday, 11 March, 4PM ✏️ Free for all

“Facts are our superpower” said @jodieginsberg.bsky.social in the James Cameron Memorial Lecture at @journalismatcity.bsky.social. But it’s one that can preserve democracy – and that makes it a threat to those who want to undermine it. And that’s why we need to protect journalism. Read on:

"Let’s all be half as brave as our colleagues who are risking everything to do their job". We were excited to have @jodieginsberg.bsky.social for the James Cameron Lecture last night. If you missed it, you can see her at the Media Freedom Forum we're hosting: lnkd.in/etSUWaSH 📷: @adders.blog

Listening to @jodieginsberg.bsky.social of the Committee to Protect Journalists giving the James Cameron Memorial Lecture at @journalismatcity.bsky.social on the increasingly hostile environment for journalists.

📢🟡100+ academics have signed a letter calling for the introduction of universal anti- #SLAPP provisions to protect #AcademicFreedom. antislapp.uk/2026/03/04/a...

This couldn't be more timely. Hope to see you at @journalismatcity.bsky.social next week!

Our fantastic @sanammahoozi.bsky.social reporting on the latest in Iran for @nytimes.com 👉

I wasn't sure there was anything to add when @uk.theconversation.com asked me to write a piece about the Jimmy Lai ruling. Then I came across a curious Ming Pao editorial that said the ruling made journalistic red lines clearer. Here's why it doesn't. theconversation.com/twenty-year-...

New on my website: details of my live book events in London, Birmingham, and Derby in the coming weeks 'The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful Kremlin' is published by @yalebooks.bsky.social . Do please come along if you can. jamesrodgersauthor.com/the-return-o...

Join us for a week of fearless inspiration and powerful collaborations at @citystgeorges.bsky.social!

Join us for a week of fearless inspiration and powerful collaborations at @citystgeorges.bsky.social!

🚨 Media Freedom Matters: Launching the Centre for Journalism and Democracy 🗓️ 5 March | 16:20–17:00 A new research centre focused on strengthening #Journalism and #Democracy at a critical global moment. 🔗 Register: mediafreedomforum.co.uk/registration/

Have you all seen the incredible anti-ageing effect of journalism studies at @citystgeorges.bsky.social? Just saying...

There’s an urgent need to protect journalists worldwide and no better time for Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists to give the James Cameron Memorial Lecture City St George’s, University of London. Details & registration here: shorturl.at/6xY21

NEW DATE ALERT! Our James Cameron Memorial Lecture will be delivered by @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, CEO of @pressfreedom.bsky.social. This urgent talk about journalists' safety in hostile climates will take place on March 4th. 📆 4 March, 6:30PM ✏️ Entrance is free, register here: shorturl.at/Abnyl

The UK Media Freedom Forum is coming together in a particularly critical moment for press freedom in the UK and beyond. Come to hear from our fearless reporters and passionate advocates! 📆 5-6 March at @citystgeorges.bsky.social ✏️ Secure your place here: mediafreedomforum.co.uk/registration/

The UK Media Freedom Forum is coming together in a particularly critical moment for press freedom in the UK and beyond. Come to hear from our fearless reporters and passionate advocates! 📆 5-6 March at @citystgeorges.bsky.social ✏️ Secure your place here: mediafreedomforum.co.uk/registration/

Join us for "Broadcasting Appartheid: British TV and the Anti-Appartheid Campaign (1950-1990)", a book launch and Q&A at @citystgeorges.bsky.social next month! 📆 9 March 2026, 5:30 PM ✏️ Details & registration here: shorturl.at/WVzin

Tonight! Still a few tickets left so please come along if you can. I will be talking about the book, and my reflections on travelling in, and writing about, Russia since the early 1990s

Only a few weeks into 2026, and our excellent staff have already got a flood of new publications out! From crowdfunding journalism to news cabaret, from propaganda in disguise to the resilience of Nigerian reporters - give it a read 👉

'An ambitious study' and 'a welcome addition to this area of scholarship' @thecipherbrief.bsky.social reviews my new book, 'The Return of Russia' (@yalebooks.co.uk) www.thecipherbrief.com/putins-long-...

🔈 Beyond the Hostile Environment Join us for a special event chaired by Channel 4's Simon Israel, hosted by The Voice of Domestic Workers, with speaker @zackpolanski.bsky.social, to imagine a new vision for migrant domestic workers between storytelling & policy. 📅 26 Feb, 6:30 ✏️ shorturl.at/bitO2

Next month @journalismatcity.bsky.social . (Free) tickets still available for this--an issue that affects not only journalism, but democracy itself

Proud to announce that Dr Manisha Ganganuly - an investigations correspondent and the open-source lead for @theguardian.com - is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at @journalismatcity.bsky.social. Welcome on board @manisha.bsky.social! ✨

This timely lecture by @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, CEO of the @pressfreedom.bsky.social, will take place at @citystgeorges.bsky.social on March 4th. Join us to discuss the latest crisis in journalists' safety, and what can be done. 📆 4 March, 6:30 PM ✏️ Free entrance, register: shorturl.at/v0OKH

"Survivors of Epstein’s abuse had been speaking out for years before the public became fascinated by Epstein’s crimes and the famous men in his network". Our brilliant @lindseyblumell.bsky.social writes today in @theconversation.com. 🗞️ Read here: shorturl.at/zVXFb

Next week, the inspiring @jodieginsberg.bsky.social, CEO of @pressfreedom.bsky.social and our dear alumna, is returning to @citystgeorges.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in journalists' safety and the future of media freedom. All invited! 📆 Wed, 11 Feb, 6:30 ✏️ Register: ow.ly/fbpT50Y0cEL

🎥 Our journalism lecturer Suyin Haynes is hosting a special night celebrating romance in East & Southeast Asian cinema next week! Join her at the Brixton Community Cinema to talk cinematic love and watch Malaysian drama 'Sepet' (2005). Tues, 10 February, 6:30 Details & tickets: shorturl.at/oXc0V

I had a great time diving into everything from Melania’s documentary and ICE in Minnesota to Iranian solidarity raves, what we should all learn from Jimmy Kimmel, and how to fight The New Censorship, with the always-remainiacs @hannahfearn.bsky.social @mattgreencomedy.com & @nndroid.bsky.social 👉👉

@sanammahoozi.bsky.social, a @nytimes.com journalist and our own @journalismatcity.bsky.social research associate, uncovers the challenges Iranian journalists are facing as they seek to cover the darkest hours of Iran. Today on @theconversation.com 👉👉

New on my website--a post on my book, published in the UK and US tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January. New Book ‘The Return of Russia’: Podcasts and Live Events – James Rodgers, writer and journalist share.google/lbgUE5vGp3OZ...