John Steel

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John Steel is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Journalism and Free Speech (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor (with Martin Conboy) of The Routledge Companion to British Media History (Routledge, 2014).

‘Liberal’ reform and normativity in media analysis

Media reform in the neoliberal context may involve a fundamental re-evaluation and re-imagining of many of the ‘sacred’ normative foundations upon which free media and democratically functioning journalism are based.

By John Steel

/ 18 Aug 2014