University of Ulster academics presented a paper on Tuesday which will interest local politicians, media and onlookers when it is published in a journal at a later date.
Power, trust and accountability: relationships between government communicators and journalists in Northern Ireland. (Charis Rice, Ian Somerville and John Wilson)
I spoke to Charis Rice at the close of this week’s Political Studies Association conference and she explained that she has been interviewing key department officials as well as key politicians to analyse how the government communicates with key journalists and on to through to the public.
This research also aims to point out areas where government/media/public communication relationships could be improved. Previous research into devolved communication has mainly centred around party-specific political communication and reporting of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Hard to imagine Jim Allister not being first in line to get his hands on the early analysis when it is published in a journal, or whenever Charis’ PhD hits the library shelves in a year or so. Stormont’s Executive Information Service may be queuing up behind him …
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political events and conferences. He delivers social media training/coaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland; and a member of the Corrymeela Community.
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