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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 19h

Newsletter editor for Quarz going to have a rough morning....

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 07/09/2026

Adventures in trying to read Dugin.

No clue how this relates to the fourth political theory. Is this bullshitting?

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 01/07/2026

Some highlights from pics taken at South Africa's xenophobic protests yesterday.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 20/05/2026

Fieldwork sketch of pyracantha - ubiquitous on South African highways.

Black and white sketch (pencil and ink) of a branch of a pyracantha plant with berries.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 20/10/2025

New Pub! A chapter in volume 1 of "Navigating Trauma in African Journalism", thanks to the kind invitation and tireless editing of Kealeboga Aiseng and Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam.

An abstract of a chapter, saying: "Since the Vietnam War, moral injury has been recognised as a form of psychopathology with symptoms substantially similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet unlike post-traumatic stress disorder, the causes of moral injury are essentially moral rather than fear-based: rooted in taking—or failing to take—actions that an individual believes to be fundamentally morally important. This chapter argues that forms of journalism with an especially strong moral orientation, such as investigative and conflict reporting, are likely to be especially predisposed to the kinds of perceived moral failures that might cause moral injury. Moreover, trying to understand the connection between certain forms of journalism and moral injury directs us to see journalism as an unavoidably moral practice in which journalists find themselves taking on obligations to sources, audiences, and the subjects of their stories in ways that may be hard to fulfil."

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 05/10/2025

Pencil sketch from a photo I took in Sumy the day after Russia's Easter Sunday attack. For someone who has generally preferred photography, sketching has been a helpful way to work through what was a confusing set of days. #urbansketch

Pencil sketch of one of Sumy State University's buildings after the Palm Sunday missile strike in 2025. The building facade is peppered with shrapnel impacts and much of the brickwork is exposed and shaken.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 02/10/2025

Reason not to use AI number eleventymillion:

A Google search query asking when teh deadline for submitting papers to the International Communication Conference in 2026 is. The AI replies that the deadline is on Nov 3, and that this is in the past. It is October 2.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 07/09/2025

I arrived almost a week ago exactly in South Africa for what will be a year-long fellowship (thank you British Academy) based at the South African Institute of International Relations at Wits.

An image of the great hall of the University of the Witwatersrand. It is a large building with a central entrance fronted by eight enormous columns, with wings on the left and right. The image is taken from across a large open plaza and the sky above is clear.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 07/09/2025

Absolutely fucking awful. I stayed maybe a block from this building when I was in Sumy, and just out of frame was this mural. Russia can do its worst. It will never subdue Ukraine.

An almost three story high mural of a blacksmith forging the Ukrainian trident over white-hot coals.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 29/08/2025

Reading Garvey warning about MAGA, basically.

An extract from a speech by Marcus Garvey warning that when subjected to black lawmakers, white Americans will lose their shit.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 21/06/2025

Postcards from a post-fellowship break. #zanzibar

A street scene in stonetown, Zanzibar. A dirt road between old buildings disappears into shade, as the road and surroundings are covered by a lush green tree growing alo gside the road on the right hand side.

A sunset scene of the beach at stonetown, Zanzibar. Below an orange sky, as many as two dozen small boats are silhouetted on the ocean, with larger cargo ships in the background. On the breach in the foreground, a man with dreadlocks is silhouetted walking past.

A scene of the ocean at sunset from stonetown, Zanzibar. Various small boats sit in the water, lit warmly by the sun. Behind them sits a passenger ferry and some sort of bigger industrial boat.

A scene from the waterfront in stonetown, Zanzibar. Two silhouetted palm trees on the left and right frame the ocean, with dozens of small boats on the water.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 15/06/2025

Finally getting into this *relaxing* thing.

A pencil sketch of an awning/umbrella made out of palm thatch. In the top left is a pencil sketch of a seashell and the top right has the text "Bongoyo Island, Tanzania, 31/5/2025"

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 21/05/2025

CODESRIA fellowship to the school of mass comm. and journalism in Dar es Salaam now boarding. I am beyond excited to visit senior colleagues there that I was once a tiny MA student with.

Red duffel bag with a luggage tag that indicates it is on its way to Dar es Salaam.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 19/03/2025

Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only:

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 23/02/2025

Today in 'Irony is dead, capitalism ate it'.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 21/02/2025

We're having a fantastic (hybrid!) panel on media and the war in Ukraine here at Liverpool next Thursday (27 Feb) with a screening of "1% of war" and Q&A with director Denys Khrystov afterwards. Registration is at: bit.ly/liverpoolmed...

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 31/12/2024

*cries in system administrator*

A paper notebook titled 'internet password book'

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 02/11/2024

Next time you think your paper might not be good enough to be accepted to a journal, know that this exists and click that submit button.

Screen grab of a journal article titled "Defining terrorism: Is one man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter." It has been accepted at a Routledge journal. Its abstract reads: Most researchers tend to believe that an objective and internationally accepted definition of terrorism can
never be agreed upon; after all, they say, ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.’ The question
of who is a terrorist, according to this school of thought, depends entirely on the subjective outlook of the
definer. This article argues that an objective definition of terrorism is not only possible; it is also indispensable
to any serious attempt to combat terrorism. A correct and objective definition of terrorism can be based upon
accepted international laws and principles regarding what behaviors are permitted in conventional wars
between nations. This normative principle relating to a state of war between two countries can be extended
without difficulty to a conflict between a nongovernmental organization and a state. This extended version
would thus differentiate between guerrilla warfare and terrorism. The aims of terrorism and guerrilla warfare
may well be identical; but they are distinguished from each other by the targets of their operations. The
guerrilla fighter’s targets are military ones, while the terrorist deliberately targets civilians. By this definition,
a terrorist organization can no longer claim to be ‘freedom fighters’ because they are fighting for national
liberation. Even if its declared ultimate goals are legitimate, an organization that deliberately targets civilians
is a terrorist organization.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 28/10/2024

Off to write for the day. Such a small joy in the mess of the world.

A photo looking down at legs in blue jeans and blue trainers with orange laces on a sidewalk covered in autumn leaves.

A cosy picture of a cafe table, low angle at the tabletop. There is an egg yolk yellow cup in the foreground, along with a glass bottle of water and a cold grey sky outside.

A folder of academic notes. On the lwft side is a moleskine with handwritten notes, to the right a worn and coffee stained printout of a paper titled 'the creeps as a moral emotion'.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 06/10/2024

Why were they in Lebanon, Marsha?

Tweet by Senator Marsha Blackburn saying eight Israeli soldiers were murdered by terrorists in Lebanon.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 27/09/2024

Ljubljana, you've been most excellent company. #ECREA

Landscape image of Ljubljana city in the evening. Red and white buildings sit down below with a brilliant blue sky and evening clouds above.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 22/09/2024

Liga Ozolina looks at journalism's work to maintain coherence as a field and acceptance of its normative mission.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 22/09/2024

Marilia Gehrke argues that journalist-elite relationships are untenably dysfunctional and need to change.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 22/09/2024

@seldridge.com explores how thinking in terms of 'dependency' unsettles various assumptions in the field.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 22/09/2024

Sandra will be offering new theorising of journalism's (dys)functional relationships.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 22/09/2024

For my paper, I'm offering the provocation that journ. studies as a field is reaching the end of its useful life.

Picture of Richard Stupart with the talk abstract, saying Journalism is one set of answers to questions around the division of epistemic labour. In abstract terms, it is an answer to social epistemological challenges: an arrangement through which communities are in a relationship with agents who know the world for them and inform them of things that are of value to that community (value being varied: moral value, utility value, etc). Most accounts of journalism have an assumption of this kind underlying them, yet tend to confuse the institutional forms that this social-epistemic relationship takes (e.g. the classic newsroom) with the relationship itself. Using news reporting of the War in Ukraine as an example, I argue that professional journalism is an increasingly marginal element of how the work of knowing distant realities gets done - a view which poses difficult questions for the field of journalism studies.

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · 22/09/2024

I am delighted to be part of a session on new interdependencies in journalism at ECREA next week with Sandra Banjac, @seldridge.com, Marilia Gehrke and Liga Ozolina. We'll be discussing journalism's (non) independence and the coherence of the fields of journ. & journ. studies.

An outline of a panel discussion at the 2026 ECREA conference, titled "New Interdependencies in Journalism' with headshots of the five speakers.

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