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On 2-4 June 2017 Byline, the online investigative news outlet, are organising The Byline Festival (see www.bylinefestival.com ) to focus on aspects of news provision, including ownership, ‘bias’, social media, big data, surveillance and coverage of contentious topics such as Brexit and migration. Active involvement by academics and their students is invited. If you and/or your students would like to be involved in this event, please contact info@bylinefestival.com.

I am sure you will have heard the trail but if not BBC Radio 4 Sunday 1.30 pm( or listen now   http://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/b07c2w62

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I cannot believe that a frisson did not pass through The Guardian’s offices when the paper’s executives had to balance the value of an exclusive interview with Andrew Parker, the director-general of the security service MI5, against the fact that it meant giving front page space to the loudest and most unrepentant critic of the paper’s work with whistleblower Edward Snowden.

https://theconversation.com/guardian-interview-finally-brings-an-mi5-boss-in-from-the-cold-but-why-68107