news & views

From Paw Patrol to sleep training - how the global economic system and the extrinsic values that underpin it have reshaped childhood and parenting

In this time of worsening crises, we need to slow down in order to ensure our strategies for change are not doing more harm than good.

After Donald Trump's most recent inauguration, we agree with George Lakoff that supporting artists is fundamental when it comes to paradigm shift.

A summary of the Values in the Media conference in November 2024, where media professionals gathered at the historic St Ethelburga's in London to grapple with such questions and explore the complex relationship between media and cultural values as part of the Values in the Media project.

In this blog, Tom explores how social dominance orientation (a construct in social psychology used to measure a feeling of entitlement to dominant others) can be considered a driver of many of the social and environmental crises of our day.

A recent study in Chilé: ‘journalistic values from an audience perspective’ , recognises the “importance of the human touch in journalism". Elsie unpacks this and looks at the role that values might have to play in facilitating this in her latest blog

When you hear the word 'values' what do you think of? As a word it has many meanings. In this blog, Ruth explores the often overlooked, but potentially transformative power of values for social and environmental justice.

Tom explores the small but growing literature on “behavioural spillover effects”

We need a news media that recognises the impact it has on our collective values and what we see as important in the world