Gordon Brown's speech to Labour Party conference

I've blogged this at the SFX site if anyone wants to use the links there.

Knife Crime reporting

Programme coming up on Monday night Radio 4 9pm which sounds good. I'm going to try to record it to use.

Binge drinking

Now that term's properly begun, this is what I feel like doing every day. Here's a link to Terry Kirby in The Guardian looking at the background to binge drinking in Britain and its representation in the media.

Andy Murray coverage during Wimbledon 2008

Here are a range of press extracts from this year's Wimbledon, all offering representations of an individual (Andy Murray) during the 10 days he was in the competition: The Sun 25/6/08, Daily Mirror 30/6/08 and 1/7/08, Daily Record 1/7/08, Daily Mail 2/7/08 and The Sun 3/7/08

Youth crime - an historical perspective

Good article about moral panics over youth crime from Mick Hume in The Times.

Channel 4 Dispatches - press coverage of Muslims

Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Monday 7th July looks at how Muslims have been represented in the British media, particularly since the July 7th bombings.

The very detailed Cardiff University report into media representations of Muslims is available here.

Disarming Britain

Site supporting Channel 4's season on gun and knife crime in Britain.

The programmes themselves could be good for use in class and might help with resources from other modes, plus there's a blog and sets of links to other sites focusing on the issue.