Breaking into radio, Karen style

Karen Wight is part of the breakfast duo ‘Steve and Karen’ on one of the most listened to radio stations in the North East ‘Galaxy FM’. And it was her work at Utopia that gave her the radio bug.

Karen’s interest in the media world began back in 1995, when she started her degree studying Media and Communications. Like all media degrees at the University they involve aspects ranging from TV to film, journalism to public relations, but the part of the degree that interested Karen most was radio. Read more

Media and climate change

The UK tabloids and US broadsheets were both in the news this week for their poor coverage of climate change. Poor in either volume (US) or tone and accuracy (UK).

In the UK, The Guardian picked up on new research carried out by Max Boykoff and Maria Mansfield at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, reporting on the coverage of climate change in the tabloid press (.PDF). They analysed 974 articles published between 2000 and 2006 in the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Mirror, and found that: Read more