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'Keep calm and stay balanced' - that was John Simpson's advice to journalists when he delivered the 2016 Hadyn Ellis Distinguished Lecture at Cardiff University.

We are not yet 100 days into Donald Trump's presidency, but by the sheer volume of news coverage alone, one could be forgiven for thinking that it has been far longer since the inauguration.

Cardiff University's Creative Economy team is convening a symposium to examine the components of a creative city, in partnership with British Council Wales.

Lisa Lapin, associate vice president for university at Stanford University since 2008, has been promoted to a new post as vice president for university , effective Nov.

University of Melbourne researchers are pushing for recognition of young 'kinship carers' - a hidden group aged 30 and under caring for family members or friends aged under 18, sacrificing their own careers, education and wellbeing.

Author Caitlin Shetterly, whose books include the recent 'Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future,' will speak on campus on Thursday, Nov.

The moment a presidential candidate lodged an accusation that the 2016 election is 'rigged,' the campaign rhetoric started to feel personal.

The nation spent the last month or so deciding whether to mind that one of the two major party candidates, Donald Trump, had been recorded on tape bragging about using his money and power to kiss and

A UCL lecture will be live-streamed around the world today on the Periscope platform, in the first partnership of its kind with a UK university.

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) of ESA's ExoMars 2016 has successfully performed the long 139-minute burn required to be captured by Mars and entered an elliptical orbit around the Red Planet, while has not yet been confirmed with the mission's test lander from the surface.

Editor's note : David E. McCraw, a 1976 U. of I. journalism graduate from Monticello, Illinois, got some unexpected online attention last week in his role as a vice president and assistant general counsel for The New York Times.

Just like television shaped the Nixon-Kennedy race, the social media platform shows that new media matters in politics.

Lily Bui's path to her PhD program in urban studies and planning at MIT has been a meandering one, yet along the way she has followed her passions while finding new ways to support communities at the grassroots level.

There is widespread worry today about the health effects of just about everything around us - from the food we eat and water we drink, to the plastics we use and medications we take.

AUSTIN, Texas - As the 2016 election cycle draws to a close, the vast majority of Americans report that they are unsatisfied with how the news media have covered politics, according to researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

A new service which aims to harness the power of social media to provide journalists, financiers and sports fans with an invaluable 'glimpse into the future' is officially unveiled today (Monday 10 October).

The ExoMars 2016 mission will enter orbit around the Red Planet on 19 October. At the same time, its Schiaparelli lander will descend to the surface.

Demand for translation skills in our increasingly multilingual and connected world has led to the University creating a new free online course.

In 1966, when the conservative writer William F. Buckley launched a television talk show, it may not have seemed like a promising endeavor, on the surface.

Berkeley - Five decades after the founding of the Black Panther Party, an exhibit of two dozen photos taken from the front lines of the history-making, activist organization rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area opens Wednesday, Oct.

Bern, 27. Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 30 September 2016.

During an intense U.S. presidential campaign, millions of people are chatting about the election every day on Twitter. MIT is studying them. More precisely, the Laboratory for Social Machines, part of the MIT Media Lab, has launched a project called the Electome that charts Twitter in unique detail.

The new field of media studies will be explored in a series of lectures beginning Oct. 6 that focus on emerging research, particularly by younger scholars in the field.

What do robots performing comedy, music boxes from China and a jelly pudding have in common? These are just three of the projects that were on display at the Intersections exhibit, which showcased work from the Media and Arts Technology CDT at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Research published today by Dr Stephan Heblich of the University of Bristol shows that during the initial phase of the internet, a 'crowding-out? of political information occurred, which has affected voter turnout. The internet has transformed the way in which voters access and receive political information.

The veteran broadcaster Vincent Kane will give a hard-hitting verdict on the Aberfan disaster at a conference to be held at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies on 8 September 2016 - a month before the 50 th anniversary.

The role of women researchers in Antarctica - and the discrimination that locked them out of the frozen continent for decades - will be highlighted with a " Wikibomb " this month.

Washington state's housing market remained strong in the second quarter of 2016. Home sale prices and the number of sales were up, although new building permits were down compared with a year ago, according to the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Washington.

A Europe wide research team led by the University of Warwick has won European funding to bring together communities, policing and policy makers to tackle how to protect the public on social media, and

The founder of the BBC Asian Network in the West Midlands, Anita Bhalla OBE, one of the region's leading voices for the arts believes the arts are a huge asset in terms of learning, community cohesion, and education.

A wild-eyed television preacher, uncensored public access nuttiness, even a young Ellen DeGeneres featured on a local comedy show segment - when Stephen Groening had students explore the history of local television for a class, they sure found a lot of good stuff.

As a top ranking leader, Heinrich Schmidinger has worked tirelessly and successfully for the fundamental transformation of the Paris Lodron University into a modern educational and research instituti

While other art schools are being closed and reduced, the ANU has demonstrated strong support for the School of Art and the future of tertiary art and design in Canberra and the region.

ANN ARBOR'It's the televised pep rally intended to unify a political party.

The University of Bristol's Musculoskeletal Research Unit has won the special prize in the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) New Media Competition for a film that shows how patient involv

From 7 to 14 August, a collaborative course offered by the Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, and the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Vienna, will take place.

Jack Rowley has a "dream job" at the Fred Rogers Company.

ESA Space in Images Title AIM at Didymos Released 29/06/2016 8:41 am Copyright ESA - ScienceOffice.org Description ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact Mission and its twin CubeSats, with its microlander in place on the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids.

Jack W. Fuller set a standard of integrity and accomplishment for a generation of Chicago journalists, rising from his first junior job at the Chicago Tribune at age 16 to become a Pulitzer Pr

Native bees are falling victim to bad press, with the media glorifying European honey bees at the expense of hard-working Australian pollinators.

ESA Space in Videos ESA Web-TV Title Tim's first news conference back on Earth Released : 21/06/2016 Language English Footage Type Live Footage Copyright ESA Description The first news conference wit

ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko landed safely today in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft.