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  • Case studies: recruit, retain and respect
  • Charities take on TV producers over use of babies on TV
  • What an amazing opportunity
  • Media ethics?
  • Return of the real
  • Kids on TV - are the Ofcom guidelines about to change?
  • Find out more about journalists
  • Death of the newspaper?
  • Can't get on TV? Set up your own channel
  • Teens bite back
  • People Power vs the Media
  • BBC axes Planet Relief
  • Right of Reply
  • Are journalists morally corrupt?
  • The fight over copy approval
  • Don't hang up
  • Insulting titles?
  • Who can give informed consent to be filmed for TV?
  • Citizen Journalism offers huge opportunities for charities
  • Alastair Campbell - What does his criticism of the media have to do with charities?
  • Barnardo's adverts shock again
  • The secrecy surrounding newspaper charity appeals
  • The Media Standards Trust website
  • Charities will have a harder time trying to get the BBC to support their campaigns in future
  • What Rob Dyson learned from working inside the BBC
  • Controversial charity association with Paris Hilton
  • New report on "contentious citizens"
  • A great resource from Australia
  • case studies and c.a.l.m
  • The death of the press release?
  • a useful toolkit from the National Audit Office!
  • Power to the People
  • should real children be used in programmes at all?
  • Women's magazines really do screen case studies according to their looks
  • Sometimes I understand journalists' frustration...
  • Fighting back against negative stories in the press
  • Press release blunders
  • Will journalists bypass charities when looking for case studies...
  • Adam Sampson at the NCVO Campaigning Effectiveness Conference
  • Does the media treat elder abuse differently to child abuse?
  • The Morality of the Media
  • Debt case studies - are there any?
  • Are charities "society's voice of righteous opposition"?
  • BBC Outreach - a new site and newsletter
  • One way to get your organisation known by journalists
  • Digital Dividend Review - What on earth is in it for the Voluntary Sector?
  • Embargoes and journalists' dislike of them
  • If a journalist can't make contact...
  • Mail and Express deny they are biased against asylum seekers
  • a brave charity.....
  • Another report on media stereotypes of young people
  • An educational TV doc or a "sick reality TV show"?
  • Charity fundraisers under media scrutiny
  • Charity campaigning - The American way
  • the Secret Millionaire - a missed opportunity for charities?
  • The power of the sound-bite
  • What happens when you introduce refugees to the media?
  • TV nightmares
  • A chance to make the news
  • Some tips on promoting your website
  • The end of a shocking era?
  • A photo agency on the hunt for charity events / stories
  • A chance for case studies to bite back!
  • The trying world of dealing with celebrities.
  • In reality the media are happy to take volunteering stories...
  • Free Information on Media in Your Area
  • Women in Journalism debate the use of case studies
  • An outrageous case study request...
  • Big charities persuading big broadcasters to collaborate with them...
  • Free internet safety events
  • the use or not of press releases
  • A kickstart for UK Campaigning Films?
  • Edinburgh TV Festival
  • Tsunami OK for broadcast DEC appeal but not Lebanon
  • TV programmes on disability provoke heated debate
  • The treatment of asylum seekers in the media
  • Could the ban on "political" broadcasts be lifted?
  • BBC TV News is very keen to meet new charities
  • Inside the mind of BBC News Editors
  • Are charities anti-media?
  • Suicide and how the media report it
  • Do charity coalitions have clout with the media?
  • Did you know that DFID funds TV development?
  • Media and CSR - a relatively new venture
  • Bringing charities and BBC Radio 4 producers face to face
  • Should we censor journalists' requests?
  • Media Connections 2006
  • Freelance "fishing"
  • How to get a story to BBC News
  • TV and the developing world - the challenge of getting producers to be interested
  • New ways of using the web
  • A triumph of a charity communications conference
  • Really getting inside the mind of the media
  • Voyeuristic televsion
  • Timing is crucial
  • A new way of uploading sound
  • The ebay millionaire who is bankrolling campaigning films
  • the BBC and death
  • Charites and the media - how accessible should charities be?
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