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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Published in: openDemocracyUKParis and Beirut: journalism’s selective compassionIs it editors, journalists or audiences to blame?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCorbyn can afford to sidestep the media but not their powerCorbyn needs a strategy to take on the media.
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Published in: HomeA guided tour through our series on 'liberalism in neoliberal times'We started the series with the proposition that liberalism is far too important to be left to the ‘liberals'. 38...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWas it ‘the Sun wot won it’? Lessons from the 1992 and 2015 electionsLabour abandoned its pledge to tackle media concentration after its 1992 defeat. It should resist the urge to do so now.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan we afford to ignore what Katie Hopkins says about migrants drowning in the Med?The Sun columnist's violent words about the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean are indefensible. They should be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBreak big media monopolies and help new journalism projects—pollAmid saturation media coverage of the coming UK general election, corporate control of big news organisations goes...