Jake Lynch's book, Peace Journalism, is published by Hawthorn Press. He is a BBC television news anchor and reporter, and Director of Reporting the World, which the Observer newspaper called, 'the nearest thing we have to a journalism think-tank'. He is an experienced international reporter in newspapers and television. He was the Independent's Sydney correspondent in 1998-9 and covered the Nato briefings for Sky News throughout the Kosovo crisis.
Publications include:
- Refereed chapters in several books including Democratising Global Media (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
- Numerous articles for peer-reviewed journals including the British Journalism Review and Social Alternatives
- Think-tank reports The Peace Journalism Option (1998); What Are Journalists For? (1999); Reporting the World - a practical checklist for the ethical reporting of conflicts in the 21st century (2002) and the TRANSCEND manual, Peace Journalism - What is it? How to do it?
- Peace Journalism video documentary, News from the Holy Land, focusing on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, published by Hawthorn Press with teaching notes.
- Over 50 magazine and newspaper articles about Peace Journalism and the ethics of reporting.
Universities:
Jake devised, and teaches, annual MA modules at the universities of Sydney and Queensland, Australia, and Cardiff, Wales; runs the twice-yearly on-line course in Peace Journalism offered through the TRANSCEND Peace University.
Training:
Jake has led professional training workshops in Peace Journalism in many countries including Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, the Middle East and the Caucasus.
Jake Lynch is married to another TFF Associate, Annabel McGoldrick.
Joint biography:
Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick's book, Peace Journalism, is published by Hawthorn Press (www.peacejournalism.org). Jake is a BBC television news anchor and reporter, a former Political Correspondent for Sky News and Sydney Correspondent for the Independent newspaper. Annabel is an experienced reporter and producer in radio and television, having covered conflicts in Indonesia, Thailand and Burma. She produced the BBC documentary, Against the War, with Harold Pinter, during the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia.
They are joint Directors of Reporting the World, which the Observer newspaper called, 'the nearest thing we have to a journalism think-tank'. Annabel chairs RtW seminars for senior journalists in London.
Their publications include:
- Refereed chapters in several books including Democratising Global Media, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005)
- Numerous articles for peer-reviewed journals including the British Journalism Review and Social Alternatives
- Think-tank reports The Peace Journalism Option (1998); What Are Journalists For? (1999); Reporting the World - a practical checklist for the ethical reporting of conflicts in the 21st century (2002) and the TRANSCEND manual, Peace Journalism - What is it? How to do it?
- Peace Journalism video documentary, News from the Holy Land, focusing on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, published by Hawthorn Press with teaching notes.
- Over 50 magazine and newspaper articles about Peace Journalism and the ethics of reporting.
Universities:
Jake and Annabel devised, and teach, annual MA modules at the universities of Sydney and Queensland, Australia, and Cardiff, Wales; they run the twice-yearly on-line course in Peace Journalism offered through the TRANSCEND Peace University.
Training:
They have led professional training workshops in Peace Journalism in many countries including Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal, the Middle East and the Caucasus.
Their son, Finn, was born in July, 2004. And they became TFF Associates in autumn 2005 and moved to Australia in autumn 2006.