Des Freedman Editor & Author

Michael Bailey is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. He is the co-editor of The Assault on Universities (Pluto, 2011), Mediating Faiths (Routledge, 2011) and Narrating Media History (Routledge, 2008). He has held visiting fellowships at Goldsmiths, the LSE and the University of Cambridge. Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and an editor of the journal Global Media and Communication. He is the co-editor of The Assault on Universities (Pluto, 2011), and author of The Politics of Media Policy (Polity, 2008), Television Policies of the Labour Party (Routledge, 2003) and War and the Media (Sage, 2003).