Sally Reardon's Outputs (15)

Broadcasting from UK courts: ‘Highly selective and limited use’ (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

After over a year of filming and broadcasting sentencing remarks in the Crown Court, there has been no published evaluation of televised court proceedings, its benefits accepted at face value. Has there been any added value to the principle of open j... Read More about Broadcasting from UK courts: ‘Highly selective and limited use’.

Lights, camera, justice: ​An evaluation of the first 12 months of video broadcasting sentencing in the Crown Courts of England & Wales  (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

Readjusting the balance: Initial results from a pioneering project to increase court coverage (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mixed messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice (2019)
Book Chapter

Using the tools of discourse analysis, this research identifies the competing and sometimes contradictory
public discourses around the requirements for the next generation of journalists—those of
journalism educators, industry accreditation bodies,... Read More about Mixed messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice.

It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article

There is a widespread perception that there has been a collapse in court reporting in England and Wales as local legacy media struggles to survive in times of falling revenues and shifting audiences. However, there is little empirical evidence with w... Read More about It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales.

Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations (2019)
Journal Article

Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain,... Read More about Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations.

Court reporting and local newspapers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reported on a pilot study carried out by UWE Law and UWE Journalism in January 2018 into reporting of newsworthy stories at the Magistrates Courts. In one week, researchers saw every case heard in Bristol Magistrates Courts, coded these fo... Read More about Court reporting and local newspapers.

United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place (2017)
Book Chapter

In recent years, the media in the UK have been under greater scrutiny than ever before, across all platforms. Journalists have been the subject of protracted criminal investigations and trials. The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethi... Read More about United Kingdom: Post-Leveson, media accountability is all over the place.

Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Journalists are frequently used as a source of information for those studying news production and practice and as a means of describing the ‘real’ world of news. However, these conversations between researcher and journa... Read More about Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists.

Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Using the tools of discourse analysis, this research identifies the competing and sometimes contradictory public discourses around the requirements for the next generation of journalists... Read More about Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice.

Editor for an Hour (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution