Strategic Communications Conference: Morning session summary
Hi there. My name’s Daniel Bennett. I write a blog for the Frontline Club on new media and conflict and I’ve been invited to temporarily take over this blogging space to crosspost a few thoughts on the...
View ArticleCan a new narrative help Somalia getting the attention it needs?
A few days ago South-Central Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government desperately asked its neighbours to send troops to help prevent the capital, Mogadishu, from falling to Al-Shabab forces. The SOS...
View ArticleDarfur and compassion fatigue..
Writing in the New York Review of Books recently, Pullitzer winner and Darfur advocate Nicholas Kristof noted that “Darfur fatigue” had set in, and that “the [Save Darfur] movement has lost its steam.”...
View ArticleEditing Afghanistan: An increasingly dissonant message
In response to the ever-increasing groundswell of voices in the media questioning the continuing wisdom behind the British role in Afghanistan, General Sir Richard Dannatt said on the BBC flagship Nine...
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Hard of Hearing: The UK Media and Afghanistan
The media space as a theatre of strategic communications over Afghanistan has been losing its efficacy. Sending the right message from Afghanistan – one which will be heard by an increasingly...
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‘In the Valley of Success’
Ten months ago I sat in on this seminar at Oxford University, trying to grasp the concept of ‘strategic narrative’ and how it fit into the post-colonial critique of power espoused in my Media,...
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Supporting Democracy through a New Access to Information Law in the DRC
Source: CongoPlanet On the 31st of July 2014, members of Collectif 24, supported by Internews and Albany Associates gathered in Kinshasa to evaluate the process of adopting a new law on access to...
View ArticleA Day Out with Vice Media
‘These men are pornographers?’ asks Abdi, one of the President’s comms team. ‘No, it’s (Vice News) just an attention grabbing name. It’s like Virgin. People used to think that was risqué.’ ‘I don’t...
View ArticleMEND Masterclass
Earlier this month Albany attended a Media Master Class workshop organised by Mend (Muslim Engagement and Development) which discussed how the rapid spread of Islamophobia in the UK post 9/11 led to...
View ArticleJournalistic sources: must be protected
Lord Black spoke during the passage of the Investigatory Powers Bill about the importance of the protection of journalistic sources as he attempted, with others, to introduce an amendment that would...
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