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Go Albion, go Albion, go go go! The local football club's long-awaited return to the top flight after more than 30 years is now tantalisingly close - and the city's two universities hope that a video of 'good luck' messages will give the team the support they need in the last few matches.

A new guide to 'fake news' has been launched by the Public Data Lab , an interdisciplinary network co-founded by Institute for Policy Research Prize Fellow, Dr Jonathan Gray.

Communities and local journalist are benefiting from the launch of an exciting new platform to share information, tips and ideas.

Critical minds needed more than ever to navigate global media landscape, say Sussex and CUHK In the face of an increasing challenging global media landscape, we need media literate graduates more than ever to understand the world we live in.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott MP has said that people should judge Jeremy Corbyn in six months, by which time she expects Labour's poor poll ratings to have improved.

The media are quick to criticise humanitarian organisations as inefficient and expensive, writes Corinna Frey (Cambridge Judge Business School), in The Conversation, but we should remember the extremely challenging work they do.

Journalism at Cardiff University is officially ranked amongst the world's best according to the latest world rankings published today (Wednesday 8 th March, 2017).

"Change is about identifying the mechanism that delivers" To celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March, Professor Claire Annesley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Equalities and Diversity, suggests we consider being bold by changing the rules.

Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies is to move to a state-of-the-art building in Cardiff's Central Square Development, situated alongside national broadcaster BBC Wales.

Top BBC journalists return to Sussex Two eminent BBC journalists, who are also Sussex alumni, will be revisiting their alma mater next month to discuss the changing face of the media in the latest of the 'Alumni Masterclass' events at the university.

Social Data Science Lab awarded £250,000 grant to set up centre to monitor Brexit-related hate crime on social media Researchers from Cardiff University have been awarded a quarter of a million pounds to help the UK Government monitor Brexit-related hate crime on social media.

A new and unique Welsh medium module, 'Cymru: Y Senedd, y Straeon a'r Spin' ('Wales: The Senedd, The Stories and The Spin'), will run for the first time in Cardiff University from February 2017.

Online media use such as social networking and gaming could be strongly influenced by our genes, according to a new study by researchers from King's College London. Access to and engagement with online media continues to grow at an unprecedented speed, and it plays an increasingly important role in the development and experience of people across all age groups.

Women who binge drink are depicted more negatively by the media than men who do the same thing, according to new research. Researchers at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow Caledonian University have investigated how the media report women's and men's binge drinking. The study, which is published in BMJ Open, analysed 308 articles published over two years in seven popular UK national newspapers and found that women's binge drinking was given more coverage in the media, despite men drinking more in reality.

A new ranking of the year's top 100 research papers features two high-profile contributions from University of Glasgow scientists. The ranking, announced today by the data science company Altmetric, is an annually released list of academic papers which have received the most attention in the previous year from sources which Altmetric track.

Cardiff University's Creative Economy team has produced a detailed map of Cardiff's creative economy workforce.

New artificial intelligence software designed to spot new child sexual abuse media online could help police catch child abusers. The toolkit, described in a paper published in Digital Investigation, automatically detects new child sexual abuse photos and videos in online peer-to-peer networks.

'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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

A wave of disruption has hit news organisations around the world, with potentially profound consequences both for publishers and the future of news production, according to a report by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Its fifth Digital News Report says the combined effects of the rise of social platforms, an accelerating move to mobile devices and a growing rejection by consumers of online advertising has undermined many of the business models that support quality news.

Frequent viewers of soft-core pornography, such as photographs of naked and semi-naked female models, are unlikely to think positively about women and are likely to have become desensitised to soft-core pornography common in newspapers, advertising and the media. Those are the findings of research by University of Nottingham forensic psychologists, Dr Simon Duff and Sophie Daniels to be presented today, Wednesday 15 June 2016, at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Division of Forensic Psychology in Brighton.

Influential figures from the world of digital storytelling and journalism will explore changing journalistic practices in a symposium at the University.

Moving tales of humanity showcased at media degree show Stories from 'the Jungle' at Calais, a multi-sensory exploration of a Holocaust survivor's childhood and an interactive box of memories for dem

Visiting postgraduate scholars from one of Pakistan's largest universities will be able to benefit from the University's teaching and learning as part of a new initiative.

Image credit: Rushenb (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons Scientists from Oxford University and Tel Aviv University have ranked the world's most 'popular' reptiles, revealing the species that capture the public's imagination and providing valuable quantitative data towards the debate surrounding conservation priorities.

Young children with mild attention problems can go unnoticed at primary school and fall behind their peers academically, according to new research published today. The study by researchers at Nottingham and Durham Universities calls for teachers and parents to work together to identify these children and help them manage their learning better in class.

Mainstream media reporting about Muslim communities is contributing to an atmosphere of rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain, according to a University of Cambridge/ESRC Roundtable held at the House of Lords.

First 'big data' research approach to graduate earnings reveals significant variations depending on student background, degree subject and university attended.

The Oxford Internet Institute is holding a Wikipedia Editathon today to celebrate Wikipedia's 15 th birthday.

Cardiff University's free online course on 'Community Journalism: Digital and Social Media' returns, starting on 8 February 2016 The course, delivered by the University's Centre for Community Journalism and hosted by FutureLearn, is open for registration.

Top investigative journalist joins Sussex journalism team One of the UK's foremost investigative journalists, Dr Paul Lashmar , has joined the University of Sussex to lead its growing journalism team.

Dr Séverine Deneulin , Senior Lecturer in International Development within our Centre for Development Studies, was a major contributor at the second international Human Dignity and Human Development

Steven Harkins, a PhD student from the University of Sheffield's Department of Journalism Studies, argues that justice should be the driving force for reporting on the refugee crisis.

Milestone report raises concerns on sector's sustainability A leading digital analyst will today issue callsfor greater support and recognition for the UK's hyperlocal media sector, at a major conference on the future of community journalism hosted by Cardiff University.

Analysis: The Beeb, the bias and the bashing By Professor Ivor Gaber , Professor of Journalism at the University of Sussex My entry for the prize for the most unsurprising allegation of 2015 was the