Category Archives: Print

Small World: Coverage of International Issues WCIA

December 17, 2015Blog, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Printangela

photo credit: Emyr Jenkins

On December 3rd the Welsh Centre for International Affairs hosted an excellent joint event with Cardiff University School of Journalism about reporting on international news stories. I was keen to hear from the panel of very experienced journalists and it was indeed a treat to have them all in Cardiff for the evening as they certainly did give us entertaining and valuable insights into their field of expertise in both broadcasting and the press. See reports below from Maria Diaz and William Hayward.

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Regulating the Regulators – the Press Recognition Panel and Wales

July 16, 2015Industry, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Uncategorizedangela

We all remember Leveson. And we still hear late rumblings from that consideration of corruption in the UK press as well as continuing debate as to how best to deal with it. A need for regulation was generally acknowledged but what system should be used? The compromise reached was the creation of self-regulators overseen by a Recognition Panel established by Royal Charter and the Panel came to Cardiff on 14th July.

The Press Recognition Panel held a consultative session in the School of Journalism, Cardiff on the criteria to be used when assessing applicants for recognition. This consultation process ends on 31^st July. Continue reading Regulating the Regulators – the Press Recognition Panel and Wales →

Faith and Violence – the journalist’s role

May 31, 2015Blog, PortfolioPrint, Print, Teacher, Teaching, Uncategorizedangela

On New Year’s Day this year the Western Mail published an article by the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Wales, Saleem Kidwai. He claimed that a precious achievement in Welsh cultural life is in jeopardy and that a generation have felt ‘rejected by their fellow Welshmen’.

Welsh-Muslim youth who thought themselves like any other Welsh person got a rude awakening post-9/11 — a sort of cultural shock that they were not like any other Welsh person. Overnight, they were the other, the enemy…

As Mr Kidwai set out the traumatic ramifications of this tragic dissociation I felt the force of his appeal that, “As a society… We have to reject any attempts to marginalize Muslims as second-class citizens” but I was perplexed as to how to go about that.

Until I perceived a potential response from the world of journalism itself – from journalism in Wales.

silent rally — Silent rally in Cardiff in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings

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Solstice Shorts competition

November 15, 2014Author, Awards, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writer, Writingangela

Shortlisted for Arachne Press SOLSTICE SHORTS Short Story Competition, November 2014

Winner Aber Valley Arts Festival Short Story Competition October 2014

October 10, 2014Author, Awards, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writer, Writingangela

Adjudicator: Grahame Davies: “A mature and wise piece of work that gives us what we want from our writers: in the face of failure and sense of loss, a sense of meaning, understanding and hope.”

Rhyme and Reason: Reflections on a Changing UK

September 11, 2014Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Uncategorized, Writer, Writingangela

Art work: Iwan Bala

Poetry written ahead of the Scottish Referendum:

Gillian Clarke, Christine de Luca, Jasmine Donahaye, Angela Graham

Millennium Centre, Cardiff 11th Sept 2014

Rhyme and Reason

Martyrdom on Television – St John Roberts and the Small Screen

April 3, 2014Author, Essayist, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writer, Writingangela

Photo: Keith O'Brien — Photo: Keith O’Brien

Martyrdom on Television – St John Roberts and the Small Screen

Based on the 60′ documentary Merthyr Meirionnydd, presented by Guto Harri, produced by me for S4C.

Article for Welsh Journal of Religious History (Bangor University, Centre for the Advanced Study of Religion in Wales).

Literature Wales Bursary for Writers 2013

August 16, 2013Author, Awards, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writer, Writingangela

I received a bursary from Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary 2013 – Short Story Collection
Literature Wales Bursaries 2013

Winner totally4women Short Story Competition

August 3, 2013Author, Awards, Media, Online, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Works, Writerangela

Snapshot was the winning entry to the totally4women Short Story Competition, August 2013.

“brilliantly chilling”- Carolyn Lazarus, Editor

Planet: Television Tells The Story of Wales

November 3, 2012Commentator, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, Print, Worksangela

The story of Wales: History through television.

Article for Planet Magazine, No. 208, Nov 2012.

Angela Graham, Development Producer on the BBC Cymru Wales series, The Story of Wales, considers the role of narrative in the television history of a nation and the relationship between broadcasting and academia.