Why do US journalists lack a strong voice and how objectivity can endanger lives during Covid-19
Channel: Jesse Hearns-Branaman
Date: 2020-08-01

The lecture 'The Role of American Journalism in Covering Covid-19' was given via Zoom on May 7, 2020, as part of One World Under the Pandemic Online Public Lecture Series organized by Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College's Division of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

'Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance' (Routledge) now available from https://www.routledge.com/Journalism-and-the-Philosophy-of-Truth-Beyond-Objectivity-and-Balance/Hearns-Branaman/p/book/9781138599581 or https://www.amazon.com/Journalism-Philosophy-Truth-Objectivity-Routledge/dp/1138887455.

Dr. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, Associate Professor of International Journalism at United International College (http://dhss.uic.edu.cn/en/staff/2012-dr-jesse-owen-hearns-branaman). He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, an MA in International Communication Studies from the University of Nottingham, and a BA in Radio and Television from San Francisco State University. He has taught communication, media, and journalism studies at the University of Sheffield, University of Leeds, and Leeds Beckett University in the UK,  Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhejiang Wanli University and the University of Nottingham in China, and the National Institute of Development Administration in Thailand. His research interests include post-structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of news, comparative journalism, and epistemological theory. He has published two books, Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance (Routledge: 2016), and The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony (Lexington: 2015).