[acc-cca-l] Free event: Can anthropology help journalists access the elite & powerful?

[Emily Kennedy]

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“In the City of London, financiers were far more powerful than journalists or anthropologists; the challenge was how to ‘study up’,” -Gillian Tett on how she gained access to elites for her reporting at the Financial Times (from her book Anthro-Vision).


Dear CCA members,

Join anthropologists and journalists for a collaborative think-tank session aimed at developing practical methods for accessing the elite and powerful.

We are inviting academics and journalists to join us in brainstorming where journalism could borrow from ethnographic methods for accessing elites (aka "studying up" in anthropology).

This free session will be a casual collaborative workshop with a goal to identify practical methods pulled from anthropology like gatekeeper and network mapping, institutional ethnography, and interview design.

Bring your thoughts on Laura Nader's "studying up;" advice from your own experience; opinions on immersion tactics and more!

Date: Tuesday December 9, 2025
Time: 1:30pm EST
Cost: Free
Register here: https://studying-up.eventbrite.com/

Sincerely,

Emily Kennedy
Director, Centre for Anthropology and Journalism<http://anthrojourno.org>
info at anthrojourno.org<mailto:info at anthrojourno.org>
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