Visiting Fellow Des Freedman

Des Freedman is a Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of books including The Politics of Media Policy (2008), The Contradictions of Media Power (2014), Misunderstanding the Internet (2017, with James Curran and Natalie Fenton), and the forthcoming Capitalism and the Media. His edited collections include War and the Media (2003), Media and Terrorism (2012) (both with Data Thussu) and Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian (2021). He writes on media for Declassified UK and led the 2016 Inquiry into the Future of Public Service Television chaired by the film producer David Puttnam. He is a founding member of the UK Media Reform Coalition and co-organizer of the annual Media Democracy Festival.