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The UK Media Law Pocketbook (2nd Edition)
No full textThe second edition of The UK Media Law Pocketbook presents updated and extended practical guidance on everyday legal issues for working journalists and media professionals.
This book covers traditional print and broadcast as well as digital multimedia, such as blogging and instant messaging, with clear explanations of new legal cases, legislation and regulation, and new chapters on freedom of information and social media law. Links to seven new online chapters allow readers to access all the most up-to-date laws and guidance around data protection, covering inquests, courts-martial, public inquiries, family courts, local government, and the media law of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Tim Crook critically explores emerging global issues and proposals for reform with concise summaries of recent cases illustrating media law in action, as well as tips on pitfalls to avoid.
The UK Media Law Pocketbook is a key reference for journalists and media workers across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The book’s companion website provides downloadable sound files, video summaries, and updates all the developments in one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing fields of law. Visit https://ukmedialawpocketbook.com
Review of 'The Cambridge Companion To Nineteen Eighty-Four' edited by Nathan Waddell Cambridge university Press, Cambridge, 2020, pp 278
No full textBook review by Tim Crook on The Cambridge Companion To Nineteen Eighty-Four, edited by Nathan Waddell, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020
International Radio Journalism. History, theory and practice - Tim Crook, 1998
No full textReview of: International Radio Journalism. History, theory and practice. Tim Crook. Londen, New York (Routledge), 1998, x + 308 p
Writing Audio Drama
No full textWriting Audio Drama is a comprehensive and intelligent guide to writing sound drama for broadcasting and online production. The book uses new and original research on the history of writing radio plays in the UK and USA to explore how this has informed and developed the art form for more than 100 years.
Audio drama in the context of podcasting is now experiencing a global and exponential expansion. Through analysis of examples of past and present writing, the author explains how to originate and craft drama which can explore deeply psychological and intimate themes and achieve emotional, truthful, entertaining, and thought-provoking impact. Practical analysis of the key factors required to write successful audio drama is covered in chapters focusing on audio play beginnings and openings, sound story dialogue, sustaining the sound story, plotting for sound drama and the best ways of ending audio plays. Each chapter is supported by extensive companion online resources expanding and supporting the writers and subjects discussed and explored, and extensive information on how to access online many exemplar and model sound dramas referenced in the chapters.
This textbook will be an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking modules and courses on radio drama, theatre and media drama, audio theatre, audio drama, scriptwriting, media writing
Infantilising the Feral Beasts: Criminalising the bad boys and girls of popular journalism and Hackgate's boomerang
No full textTim Crook argues that the white heat of anger and prejudice directed at British journalists as a result of the Hackgate scandal is in danger of ‘consuming the oxygen of libertarian tolerance
Variations saisonnières des événements en Afrique du Sud : contraste entre les races
No full textCrook Nigel, Dyson Tim. Variations saisonnières des événements en Afrique du Sud : contraste entre les races. In: Population, 35ᵉ année, n°3, 1980. pp. 691-697
The sealed and emptying chambers of Britain’s intelligence history: Why the absolute exception for security sensitive matters is a present and continuing injustice
No full textTim Crook re-tells the fascinating tale of Alexander Wilson, the Secret Service spy who wrote novels in his spare time, and argues that blanket exemptions in the UK’s FOI Act for the security and intelligence services are far too draconian and need refor
The Leveson Inquiry and the Chilling Effect- Journalism Inquisition, Moral Panic, and Diminishing Returns in Freedom of Expression.
No full textTim Crook argues that, far away from the tabloid excesses of the Street of Shame, ‘the real cesspit of nihilist ethicism is the City world of casino banking and finance where people work the least for the most and destroy and corrupt the wider economy
George Orwell: Cold War Warrior?
No full textThrough a detailed analysis of the first US radio production of Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, Tim Crook argues that it managed to express the author’s independent position and intellectual integrity. It was thus ‘probably a more potent weapon of cultural public relations against the vagaries of oppressive, free-market liberal capitalism, fascism, Stalinism
and imperialism than any CIA-funded or covertly-backed Cold War cultural enterprise
John Rodden's Contribution to Orwell Studies
No full textThe chapter examines John Rodden’s extensive contribution to George Orwell Studies. First, it maps Rodden’s major interventions in the field, focusing on his landmark contribution to Orwell – and contemporary – reception studies through The Politics of Literary Reputation (1989); his efforts to popularise Orwell through numerable articles and such edited works as The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (2007) and The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell (2012); his works that locate Orwell in context and reassess his current status and legacy and works that explore new areas, including the counterfactual that ventured to pose often disfavoured questions such as ‘what if Orwell had not died young?’ and ‘what would Orwell say?’. Second, the chapter explores Rodden’s impact on other Orwell enthusiasts, as it traces his reception in leading periodicals and his influence on and reception in the work of major Orwell scholars. Finally, it provides a selected bibliography of Rodden’s work
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