Mel Bunce
@melbunce.bsky.social
Professor of International Journalism & Politics at City, University of London | Deputy Dean, School of Communication & Creativity | Expert on international news, media freedom, journalism & democracy.
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Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!
June 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Thrilled to have received the "honourable mention" (runner up place) from the Journalism Studies division of #ICA2025, together with longstanding coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social. Our hearty congratulations to the overall winner @ruthmoon.bsky.social!
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Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.
June 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.
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**Academic position klaxon**
My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
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June 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
**Academic position klaxon**
My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
My department (who are awesome, btw) are hiring for my replacement for a year while I am away on fellowship.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
*Job Vacancy* just five days left to apply for this exciting research fellowship studying journalism and democracy. Based @citystgeorges.bsky.social
- and working with an amazing team of international scholars.
lnkd.in/e_GQmtBR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY459/p...
- and working with an amazing team of international scholars.
lnkd.in/e_GQmtBR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY459/p...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Journalism and Democracy at City St George’s, University of London
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May 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
*Job Vacancy* just five days left to apply for this exciting research fellowship studying journalism and democracy. Based @citystgeorges.bsky.social
- and working with an amazing team of international scholars.
lnkd.in/e_GQmtBR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY459/p...
- and working with an amazing team of international scholars.
lnkd.in/e_GQmtBR www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY459/p...
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Honoured to hear that Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: #Trump and @voanews.com.web.brid.gy has been shortlisted for an outstanding achievement award by @meccsa.bsky.social. Celebrating with coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social
www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...
www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...
May 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Honoured to hear that Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: #Trump and @voanews.com.web.brid.gy has been shortlisted for an outstanding achievement award by @meccsa.bsky.social. Celebrating with coauthors @martinscott2010.bsky.social + @melbunce.bsky.social
www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...
www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outst...
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A lot of good points made by @melbunce.bsky.social. Crisis reporting tends to be "sporadic, episodic" focusing on western lives.
But humanitarian reporting can aim for moral equivalency – all lives have equal value, use local sources, report on the longer term angles
@journalismfestival.com #ijf25
But humanitarian reporting can aim for moral equivalency – all lives have equal value, use local sources, report on the longer term angles
@journalismfestival.com #ijf25
April 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A lot of good points made by @melbunce.bsky.social. Crisis reporting tends to be "sporadic, episodic" focusing on western lives.
But humanitarian reporting can aim for moral equivalency – all lives have equal value, use local sources, report on the longer term angles
@journalismfestival.com #ijf25
But humanitarian reporting can aim for moral equivalency – all lives have equal value, use local sources, report on the longer term angles
@journalismfestival.com #ijf25
Looking forward to speaking at the Perugia festival next week - talking about humanitarian journalism and the ethics of crisis reporting www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...
Bridging ethics: lessons for mainstream and humanitarian journalism in crisis reporting
As the world faces increasingly complex humanitarian crises, both mainstream and humanitarian journalism play a critical role in shaping public understanding and response. Yet the ethical challenges t...
www.journalismfestival.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Looking forward to speaking at the Perugia festival next week - talking about humanitarian journalism and the ethics of crisis reporting www.journalismfestival.com/programme/20...
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US soft power aside, VOA is full of brave journalists that fought hard and creatively against government capture during Trump's first administration. I strongly recommend @newsprof1.bsky.social, @melbunce.bsky.social & @martinscott2010.bsky.social's book on this topic global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
US soft power aside, VOA is full of brave journalists that fought hard and creatively against government capture during Trump's first administration. I strongly recommend @newsprof1.bsky.social, @melbunce.bsky.social & @martinscott2010.bsky.social's book on this topic global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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The contempt #Trump shows for the Voice of America is mind-boggling given that it is a tremendous national asset. For context I highly recommend this book 👇 by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The contempt #Trump shows for the Voice of America is mind-boggling given that it is a tremendous national asset. For context I highly recommend this book 👇 by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social
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Prof @melbunce.bsky.social
@cityjournalism.bsky.social opening the UK Media Freedom Forum at CityStGeorges. A two day event at an important moment as journalism and journalists face both old and new threats across the globe. Full brochure here mediafreedomforum.co.uk/wp-content/u...
@cityjournalism.bsky.social opening the UK Media Freedom Forum at CityStGeorges. A two day event at an important moment as journalism and journalists face both old and new threats across the globe. Full brochure here mediafreedomforum.co.uk/wp-content/u...
March 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Prof @melbunce.bsky.social
@cityjournalism.bsky.social opening the UK Media Freedom Forum at CityStGeorges. A two day event at an important moment as journalism and journalists face both old and new threats across the globe. Full brochure here mediafreedomforum.co.uk/wp-content/u...
@cityjournalism.bsky.social opening the UK Media Freedom Forum at CityStGeorges. A two day event at an important moment as journalism and journalists face both old and new threats across the globe. Full brochure here mediafreedomforum.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Seeing the world’s most powerful people spreading lies about the war - is like watching your life’s work dismantled.- Olga Rodenko journalist at the Kyiv Independent
March 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Seeing the world’s most powerful people spreading lies about the war - is like watching your life’s work dismantled.- Olga Rodenko journalist at the Kyiv Independent
And we’ve started - the inaugural UK media freedom forum -
hosted at @citystgeorges.bsky.social with @fpcthinktank.bsky.social : here
Is the live stream. I’ll be posting about the event though today and tomorrow www.youtube.com/live/2bisgy7...
hosted at @citystgeorges.bsky.social with @fpcthinktank.bsky.social : here
Is the live stream. I’ll be posting about the event though today and tomorrow www.youtube.com/live/2bisgy7...
UK Media Freedom Forum 4 March
YouTube video by ForeignPolicyCentre
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March 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
And we’ve started - the inaugural UK media freedom forum -
hosted at @citystgeorges.bsky.social with @fpcthinktank.bsky.social : here
Is the live stream. I’ll be posting about the event though today and tomorrow www.youtube.com/live/2bisgy7...
hosted at @citystgeorges.bsky.social with @fpcthinktank.bsky.social : here
Is the live stream. I’ll be posting about the event though today and tomorrow www.youtube.com/live/2bisgy7...
Proud to be hosting this important event at City in two weeks. Press freedom is under attack around the world: we’re bringing together politicians, multilateral orgs, NGOs, journalists & media experts to talk about what can be done. Join us in person or online March 4th& 5th. mediafreedomforum.co.uk
UK Media Freedom Forum
Tuesday 04 and Wednesday 05 March 2025, City St George’s, University of London.
mediafreedomforum.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Proud to be hosting this important event at City in two weeks. Press freedom is under attack around the world: we’re bringing together politicians, multilateral orgs, NGOs, journalists & media experts to talk about what can be done. Join us in person or online March 4th& 5th. mediafreedomforum.co.uk
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Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America
by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social via Oxford University Press (2024)
#WinterReading
by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social via Oxford University Press (2024)
#WinterReading
global.oup.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America
by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social via Oxford University Press (2024)
#WinterReading
by @newsprof1.bsky.social @martinscott2010.bsky.social & @melbunce.bsky.social via Oxford University Press (2024)
#WinterReading
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Thanks to @apnews.com for not only approaching me for comment about #VoiceofAmerica but actually reading our academic book too. Impressive commitment to research Voice of America is required to report accurately. Trump and Lake want to beam US 'accomplishments' | AP News apnews.com/article/voic...
Voice of America is required by law to report the news accurately. Could Donald Trump change that?
It’s called the Voice of America. The storied news outlet has promised “the truth” since it first broadcast stories about democracy into Nazi Germany during World War II.
apnews.com
January 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Thanks to @apnews.com for not only approaching me for comment about #VoiceofAmerica but actually reading our academic book too. Impressive commitment to research Voice of America is required to report accurately. Trump and Lake want to beam US 'accomplishments' | AP News apnews.com/article/voic...
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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
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Great @jmcquarterly.bsky.social
review! "An incisive theoretical, methodological and structural toolkit by which to diagnose Public Service Media infected by illiberalism, as well as the therapeutic interventions necessary for resistance and recovery."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
review! "An incisive theoretical, methodological and structural toolkit by which to diagnose Public Service Media infected by illiberalism, as well as the therapeutic interventions necessary for resistance and recovery."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book Review: Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America, by Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce - Matthew L. Conaty, 2024
journals.sagepub.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Great @jmcquarterly.bsky.social
review! "An incisive theoretical, methodological and structural toolkit by which to diagnose Public Service Media infected by illiberalism, as well as the therapeutic interventions necessary for resistance and recovery."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
review! "An incisive theoretical, methodological and structural toolkit by which to diagnose Public Service Media infected by illiberalism, as well as the therapeutic interventions necessary for resistance and recovery."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Happy 2025! From the middle of the night in New Zealand where I just saw my first southern lights! - incredibly beautiful sky in Oturehua, Central Otago
January 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy 2025! From the middle of the night in New Zealand where I just saw my first southern lights! - incredibly beautiful sky in Oturehua, Central Otago
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NEW #JMCQReview🚨Here, @newsprof1.bsky.social, @martinscott2010.bsky.social, and @melbunce.bsky.social offer a timely take on US's PSM provider Voice of America--if leveraged for anti-democratic means. Read the @jmcquarterly.bsky.social review by Matthew Conaty
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book Review: Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America, by Kate Wright, Martin Scott, and Mel Bunce - Matthew L. Conaty, 2024
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:36 PM
NEW #JMCQReview🚨Here, @newsprof1.bsky.social, @martinscott2010.bsky.social, and @melbunce.bsky.social offer a timely take on US's PSM provider Voice of America--if leveraged for anti-democratic means. Read the @jmcquarterly.bsky.social review by Matthew Conaty
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The best Christmas song - and your annual reminder to check in on your antipodean friends who can’t make it home ❤️ I’m feeling incredibly happy and lucky to be drinking white wine at home with mine youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q?...
White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin
YouTube video by Tim Minchin
youtu.be
December 23, 2024 at 10:21 AM
The best Christmas song - and your annual reminder to check in on your antipodean friends who can’t make it home ❤️ I’m feeling incredibly happy and lucky to be drinking white wine at home with mine youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q?...
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“Richly textured and narratively riveting"
A new review of our recent book - "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America" - from Matthew Conaty in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
@melbunce.bsky.social @newsprof1.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A new review of our recent book - "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America" - from Matthew Conaty in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
@melbunce.bsky.social @newsprof1.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 20, 2024 at 3:22 PM
“Richly textured and narratively riveting"
A new review of our recent book - "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America" - from Matthew Conaty in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
@melbunce.bsky.social @newsprof1.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A new review of our recent book - "Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America" - from Matthew Conaty in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
@melbunce.bsky.social @newsprof1.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Exciting news for #mediafreedom folks...
There's going to be a big 'UK Media Freedom Forum' event early in the new year at City, University of London.
Lots of the big actors: UNESCO, CoE, IBAHRI.
Sign up below
jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
There's going to be a big 'UK Media Freedom Forum' event early in the new year at City, University of London.
Lots of the big actors: UNESCO, CoE, IBAHRI.
Sign up below
jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
SAVE THE DATE: UK Media Freedom Forum - Justice for Journalists
When: Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th March 2025, in London and online Where: City, University of London The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ) and the Internation...
jfj.fund
December 19, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Exciting news for #mediafreedom folks...
There's going to be a big 'UK Media Freedom Forum' event early in the new year at City, University of London.
Lots of the big actors: UNESCO, CoE, IBAHRI.
Sign up below
jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
There's going to be a big 'UK Media Freedom Forum' event early in the new year at City, University of London.
Lots of the big actors: UNESCO, CoE, IBAHRI.
Sign up below
jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
I'm very excited to be working with
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social to host a major international summit on media freedom in 2025 at City University with
@unesconow.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social, IBAHRI, Justice for Journalists @citystgeorges.bsky.social Sign up- jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social to host a major international summit on media freedom in 2025 at City University with
@unesconow.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social, IBAHRI, Justice for Journalists @citystgeorges.bsky.social Sign up- jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
SAVE THE DATE: UK Media Freedom Forum - Justice for Journalists
When: Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th March 2025, in London and online Where: City, University of London The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), the Justice for Journalists Foundation (JFJ) and the Internation...
jfj.fund
December 19, 2024 at 11:35 AM
I'm very excited to be working with
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social to host a major international summit on media freedom in 2025 at City University with
@unesconow.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social, IBAHRI, Justice for Journalists @citystgeorges.bsky.social Sign up- jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social to host a major international summit on media freedom in 2025 at City University with
@unesconow.bsky.social
@coemediafreedom.bsky.social, IBAHRI, Justice for Journalists @citystgeorges.bsky.social Sign up- jfj.fund/save-the-dat...
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Incredibly important and rigorously researched book that is sadly all too timely. A must read for anyone who cares about democratic backsliding and media capture cc: @polcomm.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social
THREAD: How easy would it be to turn Voice of America into state controlled media? I wrote a book about this with @martinscott2010.bsky.social @melbunce.bsky.social, focusing on what happened to #VOA during the last #Trump administration.
December 12, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Incredibly important and rigorously researched book that is sadly all too timely. A must read for anyone who cares about democratic backsliding and media capture cc: @polcomm.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social