Dr Graham Majin
- gmajin at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-5134
- Senior Lecturer in Documentary
- WH
Biography
Dr Graham Majin has more than 20 years experience working in TV news, factual filmmaking and media production. He has been an on-screen reporter, news editor and senior producer – including 14 years at BBC News, during which time he regularly edited the evening news for London and the South East. He also produced 'See Hear', the BBC's magazine for the Deaf community, and produced and directed documentaries for BBC2.
As a media entrepreneur he produced and directed a wide range of content for clients including global brands, charities, environmental NGOs and numerous SMEs. As well as producing marketing and promotional films and animations, Graham also produced TV drama and advised clients on SEO, content marketing and programmatic advertising.
Graham researches fake news and how the concept of truth is understood differently by audiences, journalists and academics. His project is inter-disciplinary and draws on media theory, cognitive psychology, philosophy, narrative theory and intellectual history... Graham gave evidence to the House of Lords’ report 'Breaking News? The Future of UK Journalism'.
moreJournal Articles
- Majin, G., 2024. BOOK REVIEW OF: Richard Landes Can ‘The Whole World’ be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism and Global Jihad. Journalism.
- Majin, G., 2023. I blame the Boomers. BRITISH JOURNALISM REVIEW, 34 (4), 5-7.
- Majin, G., 2023. Book Review: Tim Luckhurst, Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945. Nuova Antologia Militare, 16 (4), 789-793.
- Majin, G., 2021. A catastrophic media failure? Russiagate, Trump and the illusion of truth: The dangers of innuendo and narrative repetition. Journalism, 22 (10), 2548-2565.
- Majin, G., 2021. What is a News Narrative?: Reversing Journalism’s Arrow and the Problem of “Factinion”. The Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 6 (2), 57-70.
- Bissell, A., Fowler-Watt, K., Phillips, M., Brine, D., Sunderland, M., Majin, G., Murphy, J., 2020. Reflections on the shifting shape of journalism education in the Covid-19 pandemic. Digital Culture and Education.
- Majin, G., 2019. A catastrophic media failure? Russiagate, Trump and the illusion of truth: The dangers of innuendo and narrative repetition. Journalism.
- Majin, G., 2019. Answer the Question, BBC. BRITISH JOURNALISM REVIEW, 30 (1), 5-7.
Books
- Majin, G., 2023. Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism: The Story of the Death of Impartial and Objective News. London: Independent Publishing Network.
Chapters
- Majin, G., 2023. Orange man bad: Russiagate, the rise of boomer journalism, narrative and pro-social lying. Russiagate Revisited the Aftermath of A Hoax. 65-86.
- Majin, G., 2023. A ‘Hotchpotch of conflicting schools’: The problems plaguing journalism education in the 2020s. In: Fowler-Watt, K., eds. Challenges and New Directions in Journalism Education. London: Routledge.
- Majin, G., 2022. Millennial Journalism and its Ideological War with Donald Trump. In: ‘Arafa, M.A., eds. Perceptions and Misconceptions of Donald Trump. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
- Majin, G., 2022. The Unhealed Wound: Official and Unofficial Journalisms, Misinformation and Tribal Truth. Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation. 233-247.
Reports
- Majin, G., 2020. The Journalism we Deserve. Reflections on Historical and Generational Context.. London: Published by the Authority of the House of Lords. Available from: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/3707/documents/36111/default/ [Accessed 27/11/2020].
- Majin, G., 2020. The Journalism we Deserve. Reflections on Historical and Generational Context.. London: Published by the Authority of the House of Lords. Available from: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/3707/documents/36111/default/ [Accessed 27/11/2020].
Internet Publications
- Majin, G., 2025. A Journalism of Deception. Quillette magazine. Available from: https://quillette.com/2025/11/14/a-journalism-of-deception-bbc-deborah-turness-tim-davie/ [Accessed 14/11/2025].
- Majin, G., 2022. Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News. Quillette. Available from: https://quillette.com/2022/01/18/bitter-fruit-is-marshall-mcluhan-responsible-for-the-rise-of-fake-news/ [Accessed 18/01/2022].
Others
Public Engagement & Outreach Activities
- The Future of Television (26 Jan 2026)
- Centenary of TV (26 Jan 2026)
Conference Presentations
- Association for Journalism Education (AJE) at the University of Derby, June 2025., From Unipolar to Multipolar Journalism: The Case for Radical Impartiality in a Volatile and Rapidly Changing World., 26 Jun 2025, University of Derby
Memberships
- National Association for Higher Education in the Moving Image (NAHEMI), Member (2019-),
- Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), Member (2019-),
External Media and Press
- Centenary of TV, BBC TV, 26 Jan 2026. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75xelryd6go
- A Century Later: Rebuilding Baird's Groundbreaking TV Set, Newsclip, 26 Jan 2026. https://newsclip.com/article/a-century-later-rebuilding-bairds-groundbreaking-tv-set/