Professor Steven Barnett
Professor of communications
Department of journalism and mass communications
Contacts
Telephone: 020 7911 5981
Expertise Keywords
Audience behaviour
BBC
Broadcasting
Communications
Digital switchover
Drama programmes
Journalism
Media ownership
Media policy
News and factual programming
Newspaper readership
Newspapers
Ofcom and media regulation
Political communication
Political journalism
Press ethics
Privacy and the Press Complaints
Commission
Public Service Broadcasting
Television
Television and sport
Television journalism
Steven Barnett is professor of communications and a writer and
commentator on media issues, specialising in areas of policy,
regulation, political communication, journalism, press ethics and
the BBC. He was for many years an
Observer columnist
and writes frequently on broadcasting for the national and
specialist press. He is a frequent commentator on radio and TV
programmes on media issues, and presented an authored film as part
of BBC 4's
TV on Trial in 2005.
He has directed a number of research projects
on press and broadcasting, most recently on changing attitudes to
newspaper readership and on television coverage of international
issues in news and factual programmes in the UK. Other projects
have included a longitudinal analysis of changing news content on
the main TV bulletins, analysis of press coverage of the BBC, and a
study of the changing nature of drama and current affairs
programmes on British television. He is currently writing a book on
Television Journalism.
Languages
English