The People Behind Oxford Global Media

David Levy addressed a seminar at Sciences Po in Paris on the topic of L’information est elle un bien public? organised jointly between the School of Journalism and the Political Research Centre (CEVIPOF) at Sciences Po.  

Much of the US debate about the impact of the Internet on contemporary journalism has been uniquely focused on the US itself. This spring the book David Levy co-edited with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on  The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy has helped prompt reflection on what the US might learn from experiences elsewhere.  

In the wake of the Copenhagen conference near-fiasco, Paddy Coulter co-organised a small series of specialist workshops and expert panels in Oxford with the Environmental Change Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism to examine national variations in media reporting of climate change.  

David Levy was appointed to the Science and Media Expert Group created by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in September 2009. The group was chaired by Fiona Fox, Director of the Science Media Centre, and brought together a mix of distinguished scientists and media experts and practitioners. Its report, published in January 2010, entitled Science and the Media: Securing the Future outlines a number of actions and recommendations which, taken together, are designed to: 

David Levy delivered the keynote speech Beyond Fatalism, new perspectives on the future of public interest journalism at the 2010 C.V. Äkerlund Lectures in Media Management at the University of Tampere in Finland. 

David Levy has been acting as an adviser to the OECD on their forthcoming study on the Evolution of News and the Internet. The study was discussed at a meeting of the OECD Working Group on the Information Economy in Paris in December 2009 where David Levy commented on a draft. 

Paddy Coulter helped the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) organise a roundtable on ‘Economics and the Idea of Justice’ with the Nobel prize-winning economist Professor Amartya Sen on 19 November. 

David Levy participated in this Executive Session at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard entitled “How to make Money in News:New Business Models for the 21st Century”. For an account of the event and transcript click here 

DFID Communications published  a major review of  its media work to build support for development in the UK. This review, the first since the inception of the Building Support for Development programme in 1999, was jointly carried out by Paddy Coulter of Oxford Global Media and Amanda Barnes of The Partnership. 

Paddy Coulter was invited by the British Council Climate Change Programme to address a Beijing symposium for Chinese editors-in-chief on ‘Climate Change Communication’ held at Renmin University’s International Communication Centre on 11 September, Paddy also helped lead a workshop in Guangzhou for 40 journalists gearing up to cover the Copenhagen conference. He was joined in this by his Chinese media research collaborator Wang Jin, Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University who directs the Center for the Public, Science, and Sustainability Studies. Click here for a pdf of the slide presentation Reporting Climate Change: An International Perspective