Jen Birks

Jen Birks is an Assistant Professor in Media at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of News and Civil Society (Ashgate 2013) and writes on publics, protest and the media.

Anti-austerity in the tabloids: red-top campaigns against the Bedroom Tax

Tabloid human interest stories don’t always blame poor people for their poverty and can be connected to political arguments, but they also pose a danger of distinguishing 'deserving' cases from 'typical benefit claimants'.

By Jen Birks

/ 10 Jun 2016