Natalie Fenton is a Professor in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre and Co-Director of Goldsmiths Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. Her most recent books include Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political Communications co-authored with Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aeron Davis (Sage, 2020) and The Media Manifesto co-authored with Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik (Polity, 2020). She is on the Board of Directors of the campaign group Hacked Off and a founding member of the Media Reform Coalition.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOccupy: rediscovering the general will in hard times
Times of economic crisis call into question our systems of democracy. Today's global occupy movement is a call to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho owns the news?
In response to the Murdoch 'Hackgate' scandal Westminster has created the Levenson inquiry to look at how the media...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMurdochgate and the News: we need to reframe media and the public interest
'Murdochgate' is caused by an underlying crisis in the media and the production of news
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC Strategy Review: Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre responds
Staff at the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre give their verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: its...
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Published in: HomeThe future of the news
The collapse of the media’s business model demands a critical consideration of what we want news for and how it can...