Lecturer in Journalism, Swansea University
Dr Allaina Kilby is a lecturer at Swansea University and is an active researcher in the fields of journalism, political communication and satire. Her work is concerned with how politics and current affairs are presented to news audiences and how audiences engage with politics as active citizens. Allaina's research work thus far has involved large scale quantitative and qualitative analysis of devolved political news reporting of the 4 UK nations and broadcast news reporting of the 2015 General Election. Allaina is currently researching the links between populism and political satire and the role of emotion in satirical reporting in the era of Donald Trump.
US election: horse-race reporting is media gold but democratic poison
Oct 09, 2020 08:15 am UTC| Politics
The 2020 US presidential election campaign is moving quickly and the news media are valiantly struggling to keep abreast of whats happening. Day in, day out theres a relentless source of material to report. Its hard enough...
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