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Lights, camera, justice: ​An evaluation of the first 12 months of video broadcasting sentencing in the Crown Courts of England & Wales  (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Reardon, S., Gross, B., Keppel-Palmer, M., & Smith, T. (2023, September). Lights, camera, justice: ​An evaluation of the first 12 months of video broadcasting sentencing in the Crown Courts of England & Wales . Paper presented at The Future of Journalism, Cardiff University

On 28 July 2022, the case of R v Ben Oliver made history when the sentencing remarks of Munro J were filmed and broadcast from the Old Bailey, marking the first time cameras were allowed into the Crown Court. This unarguably represented a significant... Read More about Lights, camera, justice: ​An evaluation of the first 12 months of video broadcasting sentencing in the Crown Courts of England & Wales .

Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice? (2023)
Journal Article
Keppel-Palmer, M., Smith, T., Reardon, S., & Gross, B. (2023). Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice?. Entertainment Law Review, 34(1), 1-3

Pursuant to the Crown Court (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2020, television cameras have now been permitted to broadcast sentencing remarks made by Judges in Crown Courts. The first such occasion of this was in the case of R v Ben Oliver (2022).... Read More about Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice?.

‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
Report
Smith, T., Reardon, S., Keppel-Palmer, M., & Gross, B. (2022). ‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic. University of the West of England

It is well established that the news media plays a pivotal role ‘in facilitating open justice’ by reporting on the proceedings of the courts. Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the shutting of physical court rooms in England and Wales i... Read More about ‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Justice in lockdown:​​ Court reporting in a ​time of Covid​ (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Reardon, S., Smith, T., Gross, B., & Keppel-Palmer, M. (2021, September). Justice in lockdown:​​ Court reporting in a ​time of Covid​. Paper presented at The Future of Journalism, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University

In response to the radical changes in the operation of criminal courts in England and Wales (E&W) wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic this paper examines the impact on court reporting and how the much-vaunted principle of open justice is operating in pr... Read More about Justice in lockdown:​​ Court reporting in a ​time of Covid​.

'Arresting the decline: Court reporting in England and Wales' (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, T., Reardon, S., Gross, B., Keppel-Palmer, M., & Chamberlain, P. (2020, March). 'Arresting the decline: Court reporting in England and Wales'. Paper presented at HM Courts and Tribunals Services Media Guidance Launch Event, Old Bailey, London, UK

Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression (2017)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2017). Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression. In W. J. Schünemann, & M. Baumann (Eds.), Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe (31-42). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53634-7_3

Social media have been shown to have the potential to broaden the scope of public communication and public sphere processes. In repressive societies or contexts, they can function as an alternative public sphere challenging the mainstream; but it als... Read More about Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression.

Looking to the audience to prepare for the future of news journalism (2015)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2015). Looking to the audience to prepare for the future of news journalism. In P. Van Gelder, & C. Whitehouse (Eds.), The Future of News: Partnerships, Engagement and Diversity (67-68). Bracknell: Westminster Media Forum

This short comment piece emphasises that a consideration of the reader allows for more nuance and specificity in understanding contemporary journalism in the context of digital changes– journalists need to follow and understand not just the but their... Read More about Looking to the audience to prepare for the future of news journalism.

Controlled conditions: An analysis of the positioning of migration during the prime ministerial debates for the 2010 UK general election (2012)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2012). Controlled conditions: An analysis of the positioning of migration during the prime ministerial debates for the 2010 UK general election. In K. Moore, B. Gross, & T. Threadgold (Eds.), Migrations and the Media (47-64). New York: Peter Lang

In 2010 for the first time in a UK general election, the candidates for Prime Minster of the three major parties, Gordon Brown for Labour, David Cameron for the Conservatives and Nick Clegg for the Liberal-Democrats, faced each other in a series of t... Read More about Controlled conditions: An analysis of the positioning of migration during the prime ministerial debates for the 2010 UK general election.

Migrations and the media (2011)
Book
Gross, B., Threadgold, T., & Moore, K. (2011). Migrations and the media. New York: Peter Lang

'Migrations and the media' will bring together current research from the interdisciplinary fields of migration studies and media studies. In its focus upon the global reporting of migration, it will critically explore the mediation of a range of migr... Read More about Migrations and the media.

Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten (2010)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2010). Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten. In B. Wassenberg, F. Clavert, & P. Hamman (Eds.), Contre l’Europe? Anti-européisme, euroscepticisme et alter-européisme dans la construction européenne de 1945 à nos jours: Les concepts (379-398). Stuttgart, Germany: Steiner Verlag

On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania became members of the European Union. This paper focuses on an analysis of coverage of already existing EU migration and the two new member states over several months during 2006, the year before accession on th... Read More about Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten.

Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression of migrant voices on TV news (2009)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2009). Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression of migrant voices on TV news. In R. C. Clemens Nathan (Ed.), Media and Human Rights: Reparations for Victims of Human Rights Abuses and Prosthetic Services (127-138). London: Clemens Nathan Research Centre

This chapter looks at the way journalistic practice potentially constrains the voice of migrants on British television news.

Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news (2009)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2009). Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news. In E. Castello, A. Dhoest, & H. O'Donnell (Eds.), The Nation on Screen (139-156). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Collective identities projected in the content of national television news can be less stable and coherent than is often suggested. Working within a tension between an inclusive and an exclusive national identity discourse, television news programmes... Read More about Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news.

When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Gross, B. (2008, September). When the other speaks: Migrant voices on British television news. Paper presented at Power: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences, University of Tempere, Finland

The paper addressed the power relations between journalists and subaltern voices, e.g. asylum seekers, on British television news based on discourse analytical approach to television news coverage.

The Home Office in chaos: Refugee and asylum discourse in British broadcast news (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Gross, B., Threadgold, T., & Moore, K. (2008, January). The Home Office in chaos: Refugee and asylum discourse in British broadcast news. Paper presented at MeCCSA Annual Conference, Cardiff University, Wales

The coverage of issues related to refugees and asylum seekers on British television news is frequently used as an example of a political system in crisis. The paper highlight potential repercussions arising out of this discursive positioning.