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The Future of Journalism conference—organised every two years by the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University—was radically different in 2021. For the first time ever, the conference was held virtually, because of the travelling restrictions and social distancing imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fact-checking has been identified as a significant journalistic tool in the fight against disinformation. Relevant studies have focused on its emergence as a movement within journalism aiming at renewing the profession, as well as its effectiveness in challenging disinformation, especially during elections. However, little has been said about how audiences themselves understand fact-checking and employ it in their daily consumption of news. In this article, we answer these questions by drawing upon two sets of data. The first consists of fourteen focus group discussions in the UK, which included 52 participants, and were conducted online between April and May 2021. The second consists of two qualitative surveys that explored news consumers' understandings of fact-checking and their evaluations of current fact-checking practices of UK media during the same period. We conclude that the use of fact-checking remains largely peripheral, and its influence is minimal in people's news consumption. However, there is an appetite for more fact-checking in television news, as a way of holding politicians into account and helping the public better understand politics. In this context, we argue, if fact-checking is to play an important role in political discourse, it should become a regular part of broadcast journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Balance and impartiality are central principles in journalism, but this study argues their conceptual application in news reporting should be subject to more academic scrutiny. In the UK, the way "due impartiality" has been applied and regulated by broadcasters has raised concerns about promoting a 'she-said-he-said' style of reporting, which constructs balance but not scrutiny of competing claims. In this study, we analyse how the UK's "due impartiality" was applied by journalists in different political contexts by assessing how the BBC dealt with competing party-political claims. We develop a nuanced quantitative analysis of BBC journalist interactions (N = 967) with claims made by the four main party leaders during the 2019 UK and 2020 US elections. Overall, we found BBC reporting robustly challenged claims by US politicians, whereas coverage of UK politicians often only conveyed claims and counterclaims with limited journalistic intervention, particularly on television news. We argue that impartiality should be viewed more as a fluid than fixed concept given that the context shapes how it is applied. As concerns about misinformation have grown over recent years, we conclude that more finely tuned studies are needed to understand how journalists apply concepts about balance and impartiality in political reporting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the well-supported concept that reflective learning leads to the nurturing of personal and professional development within sports coaching, the process is often overlooked by coaching practitioners due to the all too familiar barrier of time. As such, this paper is in line with recent calls to bridge the gap between 'in' and 'after' action reflections-on-practice. Specifically, the paper investigates the utility of reflective cards (r-cards), based upon the perceptions of three equine sports coaches. Qualitative methods were employed through an action-reflection inquiry process, involving the management of change whilst participants reflected in-action over a six-week period. Participants engaged in two reflective conversations via focus groups, where discussions included the use of the r-cards (in-action) and the r-learning record sheets (on-action). A procedure of both inductive and deductive content analysis elicited five emergent themes: the practicality of r-cards; conscious awareness of the reflective process; development of craft knowledge; potential for coach development; commonality of reflective competencies. Results indicated that the r-cards are a fast and focused way to reflect-in-action, allowing decisions to be brought into consciousness, thereby empowering coaches to take ownership of their practice whilst endorsing the need for coaches to be disciplined in their noticing. Consequently, National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs) and coach educators must be aware of the potential of using such methods to engage coaches in reflective learning in order to build upon and improve current coaching practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a case study of a 64-year-old man diagnosed with extensive squamous cell carcinoma on his left maxillary sinus. It notes the use of serial photography to remove the squamous cell carcinoma. The use of a multidisciplinary approach like surgical resection for tumour management is mentioned.