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  • Future media challenges are about finding compasses not maps
    by Charles Miller
    So what came out of the BBC's Connected Communities conference? Well, lots of ideas, the articulation of plenty of complications and frustrations, some flashes of inspiration, and some hard-headed realism - or depressing frankness, depending on how you were...


 
Connecting Communities Conference, 24 May

This major College of Journalism conference - #BBCscc12 - was held at the BBC's new offices at MediaCityUK in Salford.

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'Toxic mix of politics and medicine'

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Nick Seddon of the independent think-tank Reform told a CoJo lunchtime discussion that healthcare politics is "a toxic ferment of people setting up things that aren't real and then fighting over them". It's no wonder the structural changes to the NHS are so difficult for journalists to explain.

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason agreed that the politics surrounding the changes makes it even harder for journalists to report with any clarity how structural change will affect patients' experience of the NHS.



Explaining the economy: try harder

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The audience is very interested in the economy. A survey carried out by professor Stephen Schifferes' team at City University in London found that 75% of the people polled said they followed news about the state of the economy.

But the bad news is that nearly half of them said they didn't understand it. Professor Schifferes shared his findings with a CoJo Wednesday lunchtime audience.




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