Jake Lynch

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.

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Articles by Jake Lynch

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Jake Lynch, September 27, 2011
Engage media - Social justice and environmental videos from the Asia Pacific
Here is, concretely, what an alternative, low-cost news channel looks like. And it is threatened with closing down next year due to lack of supporters! Please acquaint yourself with New Matilda - and help them!

Jake Lynch, September 29, 2010
Puncturing pomposity
On Australia's foreign policy, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka - and what the media make of it all

Jake Lynch, May 24, 2010
Australia's security in the Asia-Pacific Century
A most welcome alternative perspective to the mainstream media propaganda about China and North Korea...Part 2

Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick, April 15, 2010
The missing 'Afghans' (Part 1)

Jake Lynch, April 15, 2010
Peace Journalism for journalists

Jake Lynch, March 9, 2010
The war on terrorism and the stuggle for context

Jake Lynch, February 10, 2010
Media - Iraq first, then Iran?
"If only people knew, the war would stop tomorrow, but they don't..." and thus mainstream media continue to promote war.

Jake Lynch
Message to Nobody: "Make way for the tourists"
In solidarity with the Jerusalem Centre for Women against the discriminatory policy of Israel.

Jake Lynch, November 2, 2009
Sri Lanka - Time to stand up for human rights at last

Jake Lynch, October 30, 2009
Mapping the 'military-industrial-media-entertainment' network
Review of path-breaking book.

Jake Lynch, October 30, 2009
Notes on media and the military
Or, rather, stirring up trouble...

Jake Lynch, October 17, 2009
How America is always at war - and why
What is it about America that keeps it at war and what is now intensifying the pressures to expand the wars?

Jake Lynch, October 2009
Women's business and the media
About male and female perspectives on and in media work, peace and war journalism.

Jake Lynch - October 2009
Debates in peace journalism
Foreword by Richard Falk

Jake Lynch, November 24, 2008
Somalia - Intervention or complicity?

Jake Lynch, November 24, 2008
What is peace journalism?

Jake Lynch, October 6, 2008
On the Military-Industrial Complex in Australia

Jake Lynch - Part I of III videos - June 12, 2008
Conflict in media - Coalition of the Unwilling (I)

Jake Lynch, June 12, 2008
Coalition of the Unwilling
Look at the US 'stealth' foreign policy and military preparations: It is time for allies to develop an independent foreign policy, Australia too.

Jake Lynch, June 12, 2008
Peace journalism about Afghanistan
There’s no need for journalists to line up on either side of an ideological divide, and no need to take official statements at face value. That’s why we’re seeing more and more peace journalism, even if editors and reporters don’t often call it that. It’s an idea whose time has come.

Jake Lynch - Video Part I of III
Conflict in media - Coalition of the Unwilling (I)

Jake Lynch, August 15, 2007
Hope rings out in voices of protest
Remember, when you see news pictures of activists being carted off by robocops guarding delegates to the APEC summit, their dissent from the official line is keeping alive the prospect of peace. They, in short, are the guardians of democracy and the hope of a safer world that we could now create.

Jake Lynch, February 6, 2007
Defining independence is critical to new statehood
Discusses what it means to be independent, in the wake of the Ahtisaari report on Kosovo's future. It's also a moment of truth for a famous or infamous bit of coercive diplomacy from Washington.

Jake Lynch, The Australian, January 14, 2007
Tread warily with Manila

Jake Lynch, December 1, 2006
Iran in British media - a peace journalism perspective
The left-of-centre Guardian, for instance, comes out as markedly more War Journalistic - more likely to reproduce dominant readings of war propaganda - than some of its rivals. The right-wing Spectator shows a far higher proportion of Peace Journalism than its left-wing counterpart, the New Statesman. Peace Journalism, it is argued, produces findings of material relevance to conflict understanding as well as highlights appropriate steps editors and reporters could take to ensure accuracy and balance in their coverage.