Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-editor (with Michael Bailey) of openDemocracy's Capitalism and the University strand that ran in 2011/12 as well as the collection of essays, The Assault on Universities (2011). He is the author of The Contradictions of Media Power (2014) and The Politics of Media Policy (2008) and secretary of Goldsmiths UCU branch.
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKA tale of two British summers: phone hacking and a royal babyThe royal birth is set to be the face of the 2013 summer, but to what extent does this reveal how little the media...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKMedia corporations: too big to fail?As with the banking system, Britain needs to shake up the way its media works as a whole: nothing less can tackle...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKMurdoch and the UK culture secretary: we shouldn't be surprised, we should be angry
James Murdoch's appearance before the Leveson Inquiry has revealed the complicity between the government and the...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKIf the Sun hates attacks on press freedom, how must it despise itself!
The highest-selling daily paper in the UK is under arrest - or at least mounting numbers of its journalists and...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKStill hacked off with the media? Come join the campaign for UK media reform
The hacking scandal exposed corruption, illegality and immorality at the heart of the British media. A new...
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Publicado en: openDemocracyUKThe BBC is not part of the problem raised by Hackgate
A strong, constructive response to Dan Hind's call yesterday for a democratic media policy and not a defense of the...