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Rebecca Wells
is a former BBC producer and a visiting lecturer at London's City University where she is studying for a PhD in food policy and journalism
Blog posts in total 2
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Journalists feast on ‘food bank’ stories - some get indigestion
In the early 2000s the term ‘food bank’ was used in stories about asylum seekers or poverty in the US. By 2011 local news outlets from Glasgow to Gloucester were reporting the food bank on their doorstep.
Hi-tech burger provides perfect media diet
Not only did the launch event for the first lab-meat beef burger last month get worldwide attention, it got plenty of publicity before it happened and then acres of analysis afterwards.
