Charlie Beckett
@charliebeckett.bsky.social
LSE journalism professor
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
I run the LSE Polis Journalism and AI project
Hammer
Fascinating workshop with Swiss media execs at St Gallen university - clever, committed people in an odd media market: lots of quality but v fragmented and competitive - AI will help but lots challenges
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Fascinating workshop with Swiss media execs at St Gallen university - clever, committed people in an odd media market: lots of quality but v fragmented and competitive - AI will help but lots challenges
Swiss trains are wonderful.
But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?
But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Swiss trains are wonderful.
But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?
But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?
I like that Swiss TV weather forecasters have to present from outside. Very brave. It's literally freezing (and snowing) here.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I like that Swiss TV weather forecasters have to present from outside. Very brave. It's literally freezing (and snowing) here.
My incredible #journalismAI crew who have not only delivered the world's best journalism and AI Festival but have spent a whole year working with thousands of journalists around the world on literacy and innovation programmes - amazing people doing great work
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
My incredible #journalismAI crew who have not only delivered the world's best journalism and AI Festival but have spent a whole year working with thousands of journalists around the world on literacy and innovation programmes - amazing people doing great work
Nordic Noir at the British Museum is a wonderful survey of print and drawing - very diverse - I can't believe I live in a country where such a brilliantly curated show is free
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Nordic Noir at the British Museum is a wonderful survey of print and drawing - very diverse - I can't believe I live in a country where such a brilliantly curated show is free
For a 'serious' newspaper Handelsblatt manages to use some super dumb imagery and headlines about AI
October 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
For a 'serious' newspaper Handelsblatt manages to use some super dumb imagery and headlines about AI
Good to then go to a session from small independent publishers on how they raise money in really tough news markets - still reliant on foundations/philanthropy but some bright ideas about to build capacity, connect with audiences and find new revenue streams
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Good to then go to a session from small independent publishers on how they raise money in really tough news markets - still reliant on foundations/philanthropy but some bright ideas about to build capacity, connect with audiences and find new revenue streams
Kerry Marshall at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social is hugely enjoyable
October 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Kerry Marshall at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social is hugely enjoyable
Polite question. Why, of all artistic genres, do movie makers insist on ruining the opening of their product with endless credits and production logos? What is the point? It doesn't build anticipation or improve brand recognition. New broadcasters (YT) don't do it. So why?
October 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Polite question. Why, of all artistic genres, do movie makers insist on ruining the opening of their product with endless credits and production logos? What is the point? It doesn't build anticipation or improve brand recognition. New broadcasters (YT) don't do it. So why?
I wrote a tiny blog based on a bit of what I said at the Athens iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. Links in the piece to a recording of the whole session 'Navigating the age of doubt' and the rest of the conference blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2025/0...
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I wrote a tiny blog based on a bit of what I said at the Athens iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. Links in the piece to a recording of the whole session 'Navigating the age of doubt' and the rest of the conference blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2025/0...
Terrific debate in Athens tonight about how we navigate the treacherous media waters: insights from across the globe #imedd forum.imedd.org/en/journalis...
September 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Terrific debate in Athens tonight about how we navigate the treacherous media waters: insights from across the globe #imedd forum.imedd.org/en/journalis...
My Department have raised their social media game 👏🏻
September 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My Department have raised their social media game 👏🏻
People's responses to Trump are more nuanced and shifting. I can't believe there isn't increased push back against the madness. But this comment on the UK Telegraph is interesting. His rhetoric makes sense as style as much as ideology
September 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
People's responses to Trump are more nuanced and shifting. I can't believe there isn't increased push back against the madness. But this comment on the UK Telegraph is interesting. His rhetoric makes sense as style as much as ideology
BBC doing more child suffering porn: they would never show western children on the verge of death like this - close up, lingering filming. Clearly it's a humanitarian crisis and the Taliban could solve it tomorrow but that's barely mentioned @yogital.bsky.social #afghanistan
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
BBC doing more child suffering porn: they would never show western children on the verge of death like this - close up, lingering filming. Clearly it's a humanitarian crisis and the Taliban could solve it tomorrow but that's barely mentioned @yogital.bsky.social #afghanistan
Buy the T-shirt, all in a good cause www.instagram.com/p/DOD5hKsAry...
September 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Buy the T-shirt, all in a good cause www.instagram.com/p/DOD5hKsAry...
Now a regular thing. Young people queuing in London Fields.
August 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Now a regular thing. Young people queuing in London Fields.
Ok. Dreadful performance and result but always good to meet lovely people from outside London. Mackems were all very friendly. And England can be beautiful when you ignore the football ⚒️
August 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ok. Dreadful performance and result but always good to meet lovely people from outside London. Mackems were all very friendly. And England can be beautiful when you ignore the football ⚒️
Avice Caro at old St Pancras church was lovely tonight. She has an amazingly clear and strong voice. The band and songs pretty good, too. Gothic in a gentle way
August 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Avice Caro at old St Pancras church was lovely tonight. She has an amazingly clear and strong voice. The band and songs pretty good, too. Gothic in a gentle way
August 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Enjoyed the Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern - you really have to see them in the flesh to get that its a different dimension www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
July 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Enjoyed the Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern - you really have to see them in the flesh to get that its a different dimension www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
The joy of change was a surprising theme of the speakers at my LSE journalism Summer School. Journalists of all ages, experience, background and genres had one thing in common - they all love their work and embrace opportunities offered by media change despite the slog and stress
July 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The joy of change was a surprising theme of the speakers at my LSE journalism Summer School. Journalists of all ages, experience, background and genres had one thing in common - they all love their work and embrace opportunities offered by media change despite the slog and stress
Please meet the amazing members of our sub-Saharan Africa Journalism AI Academy who are going to spend the next couple of months exploring how to use AI in their newsrooms. An incredibly diverse group of people and newsrooms. www.journalismai.info/blog/sbcc1hq...
July 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Please meet the amazing members of our sub-Saharan Africa Journalism AI Academy who are going to spend the next couple of months exploring how to use AI in their newsrooms. An incredibly diverse group of people and newsrooms. www.journalismai.info/blog/sbcc1hq...
Fascinating to see how the BBC's main studio for the Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland is actually a virtual lake-side cabin with Mountain Views in Salford www.tvbeurope.com/virtual-prod...
July 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Fascinating to see how the BBC's main studio for the Euro 2025 tournament in Switzerland is actually a virtual lake-side cabin with Mountain Views in Salford www.tvbeurope.com/virtual-prod...
This company makes lovely soaps etc. They are all vegan. Yet, it's chosen a brand name that evokes a past crafty age when candles and soaps were made of....beef and mutton fat. 'Tallow' is 100% animal fat. The power of the past, I guess, to transform the present...I also like 'elevating laundry'
July 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This company makes lovely soaps etc. They are all vegan. Yet, it's chosen a brand name that evokes a past crafty age when candles and soaps were made of....beef and mutton fat. 'Tallow' is 100% animal fat. The power of the past, I guess, to transform the present...I also like 'elevating laundry'