Karen Fowler-Watt

Dr Karen Fowler-Watt is Associate Professor of Journalism and Global Narratives and research theme lead for journalism education in the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) at Bournemouth University. As a BBC journalist, she worked in Radio 4 News and Current Affairs as an output editor and as a field producer in the Middle East, and producing news output from Moscow, Europe, Northern Ireland and the United States. Prior to that, she was a Harkness Fellow in the School of Government and Politics at Harvard University. Karen is co-editor with Julian McDougall of the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation and (with Stephen Jukes) of New Journalisms: Rethinking Practice, Theory and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2020). A Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar’s Academy on Media and Global Change, she is editor of the forthcoming Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education (Routledge) and is currently working on a journalism pedagogy project with Dutch non-profit Global Voices, which embraces her research interests in reporting marginalised voices and re-imagining journalism education. Recent funded research has focused on trust, media literacy and fake news (US Embassy in London) and working with former child soldiers from indigenous communities in Colombia for an intra-generational peace-building project (GCRF). Karen has organised conferences, including for the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) and delivered talks on issues in journalism, in particular trauma and journalism education. She also writes about reporting conflict, immersive storytelling, transformative media pedagogies, autobiographical journalism and authorial voice.