A leading in the field, Natalie Fenton is Reader and Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre, and co-Director of the new Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy.
Des Freedman is Reader in Communications and CulturalStudies in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the co-author (with JamesCurran and Natalie Fenton) of Misunderstandingthe Internet (forthcoming 2011), author of The Politics of Media Policy (2008) and The Television Policies of the Labour Party, 1951-2001 (2003) andco-editor (with Daya Thussu) of War andthe Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (2003). He is an editor of the Sagejournal Global Media and Communication anda member of the research team in the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media ResearchCentre.