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Naomi Smith

Naomi Smith is a freelance journalist and postgraduate researcher at Birkbeck, University of London. Her current research looks at how gatekeepers at broadcast news institutions in the USA decide what is and is not newsworthy, with a view to reimagining the “news values” theory from an intersectional perspective.

Book Review – On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analysis, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh

On Decoloniality is at times both revelatory and somewhat overwhelming in its broadness, attempting to cover everything from interculturality to Eurocentrism, while setting out a clearly defined approach to a subject that it admits itself is difficult to define.


Towards an intersectional theory of news selection in US-based broadcast journalism

This article is adapted from a presentation given at BAAS Postgraduate Symposium, 4th December 2021. This paper argues that by re-thinking ideas of how journalists decide what is and is […]