The cass review, as its called, came out last week, and it recommends a new approach for clinicians. This is a Polarising Subject for some people. So, what mightjournalism do differently in how it covers it . Hannah barnes is a former bbc producer who investigated some of the uks gender Identity Services for the corporations newsnight programme. She went on to write a book about it. I asked her when she first started her investigation. First came across it at all in 2017. I was off on my first Maternity Leave and there was a piece in the times Byjanice Turner Which was talking about this really rapid increase in the referrals of Teenage Girls to gids the gender Identity Development service and she had spoken to two clinicians who worked at the service. It wasnt really a Big Sort Of Whistle blowy piece but they had talked to her and said what theyd seen and itjust i thought it was very interesting, but i was off and, you know, spending time with my baby. And there was also a documentary
Called swift notes for the guardian. And augusta saraiva, bloombergs Economics Reporter who coined the term and this is a good claim to fame swiftonomics. Laura and augusta, thanks so much for coming on the media show. Laura, if wejust start with you why did you start swift notes . Theres so much coverage of Taylor Swift in the newspaper, especially at the start of the year in the Run Up to the grammys and also when her boyfriend, the Football Player travis kelce, was headed to the super bowl, that it made sense to have a sort of one Stop Shop to contain it all and also sort of zoom out and do some slightly more sober analysis of her but also of the coverage itself because i do think shes of a scale where its very easy for people to sort of lose their heads about it and sort of be wowed by scale as opposed to going, whats actually going on here . Lets analyse it. And what is it like covering Taylor Swift . I mean, its very varied. You know, you can write about anything from Music Indu
And augusta saraiva, bloomberg s economics reporter who coined the term and this is a good claim to fame swiftonomics . laura and augusta, thanks so much for coming on the media show. laura, if we just start with you, why did you start swift n otes ? there s so much coverage of taylor swift in the newspaper, especially at the start of the year in the run up to the grammys and also when her boyfriend, the football player travis kelce was headed to the super bowl, that it made sense to have a sort of one stop shop to contain it all and also sort of zoom out and do some slightly more sober analysis of her but also of the coverage itself because i do think she s of a scale where it s very easy for people to sort of lose their heads about it and sort of be wowed by scale as opposed to going, what s actually going on here? let s analyse it. and what is it like covering taylor swift? i mean, it s very varied. you know, you can write about anything from music industry things to, as we
To fame swiftonomics . laura and augusta, thanks so much for coming on the media show. laura, if we just start with you, why did you start swift n otes ? there s so much coverage of taylor swift in the newspaper, especially at the start of the year in the run up to the grammys and also when her boyfriend, the football player travis kelce was headed to the super bowl, that it made sense to have a sort of one stop shop to contain it all and also sort of zoom out and do some slightly more sober analysis of her but also of the coverage itself because i do think she s of a scale where it s very easy for people to sort of lose their heads about it and sort of be wowed by scale as opposed to going, what s actually going on here? let s analyse it. and what is it like covering taylor swift? i mean, it s very varied. you know, you can write about anything from music industry things to, as we ll talk about swiftonomics, to her potential impact on the upcoming us election to,