Accent is a big thing in education, particularly higher education, and this research highlights just how significant: 35% of students are self-conscious about their accent; 30% of students mocked or criticised for their accent. And then there is the workplace: 46% of employees

Cosa sarebbe stata la storia dell'Italia se non ci fossero state le voci dei #giornalisti di inchiesta? 👉Parliamo di libertà di #stampa in Italia con Sigfrido Ranucci, Elda Brogi, Vittorio di Trapani, Paolo Celot, IsaStasi e #CeciliaAnesi di IrpiMedia #Voices2024

A few words about the future of investigative journalism as we see it Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project This is an important moment in time when we have to massively innovate in the public interest. forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2…

Thrilled to be part of this important project and a huge thank you to Lisa Bradley and Dr Emma Heywood for all their hard work

Great title and congratulations Dr Emma Heywood and to UoS Research & Knowledge Exchange John Price and Barbara Longo-Flint for their article Building resilience against SLAPPs: protecting investigative journalists and students from traumatic legal threats CazzaW Lee Hall

Last chance to save 10% on #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference tickets! ⌛️Early bird discount ends tonight at 23:59. 🔴3-4 July at Goldsmiths, University of London ✔️Learn: #data skills, #foi requests, how to read company accounts, #OSINT, investigative methodology, #climate

Have you spent the last three years at Uni loving your time in #studentradio? Are you now looking for an MA? We run the only Radio and Podcast MA outside of London and the only one linked to an award-winning radio station. We'd love to hear from you sunderland.ac.uk/study/media/po…

Nadhim Zahawi’s SLAPP has now resulted in disciplinary action for his lawyer. A thread on why it happened, and what it means - for the lawyer, for SLAPPS, and for Zahawi himself.

Interested in comm researchers' mental health? Read this! Four superb suggestions by Paul Wright. Happy to see that our study sparked a much-needed conversation 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Support The Ferret please and help us do more public interest journalism. Thanks to everyone who has donated so far. 👇🤝🙌

Not long now until the TheAJEUK Summer Conference 2024 (Jun 27-28)! We have a fantastic programme of speakers on "Transitions and Transformations in Journalism" (and, of course, journalism education!) - so don't miss out! More info and register below ajeuk.org/booking-open-f…

📣 Apply now! 👉 #CBLocal grant programme is still accepting applications! If you are a team of local journalists looking support for your cross-border investigative projects, apply to our European Local Cross-Border Grant Programme until 27 June 2024.

TONIGHT at 7.15pm on BBC Radio 4 “Vessels of Memory” radio documentary about glass ships in bottles in Sunderland made by my colleague Jay Sykes 🎙📻🎨📖🎓🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 He/They commissioned through University of Sunderland #MARadio grad Sister Sounds UoS Research & Knowledge Exchange Paul Callaghan Lee Hall Richard Berry

And our first #AJE24 panel is under way - and we're talking about transitioning from classroom to newsroom with speakers Greg Nixon, Lada Price, Barbara Longo-Flint, John Price and Hilary Scott, chaired by Sean Dodson

Our third talk of this panel is from Barbara Longo-Flint and John Price from University of Sunderland on empowering the next generation of investigative journalists through education, training them in developing resilience, conducting data analysis and understanding open source intelligence

#InvestigativeJournalism skills and training are evolving in the digital space, presentation from University of Sunderland faculty Dr John Price and Barbara Longo-Flint TheAJEUK

Please make sure you look after freelance staff. Check on their mental health - and make sure they feel valued for contribution and opinion. Freelancers hold the industry together and that should not be forgotten

Investigative journalism, Zach Seward says, "is actually the area where I see the most immediate and powerful applications of AI in journalism". Encouraging to see an emphasis on leveraging tech for some of the most important (and difficult+time-consuming) news work #ReutersMOMENTUM

Emotional day on so many levels. Thank you Dr. Caroline Mitchell and Dr Sheila Quaid for raising awareness on researchers’ wellbeing. Looking forward to furthering these discussions with such a wonderful group of researchers!

Huge congrats The Bureau of Investigative Journalism for successfully fighting off this case. The article in question is still online, but its taken 2 years, vasts amounts of ££, time + other resources, all of which could have gone on more excellent investigative reporting. The #UK needs an Anti-#SLAPP Law ASAP.