About me
I completed my PhD in 2018, comparing the English-language news output of Chinese state television (CCTV) with that of BBC World News TV (since extended and turned into a book). I've led undergraduate and postgraduate media studies seminars at Westminster since 2014 and I supervise BA and MA dissertations.
Before I returned to academia, I was a BBC global news journalist for more than 25 years. I worked mainly as a World Service radio news editor, but I also spent several years in regional, national and international TV news, wrote for the BBC news website, edited the daily European current affairs programme Europe Today and was an Asia-Pacific news editor/reporter. I still work occasionally as a freelance journalist.
Teaching
I hold a Postgraduate Certificate of Special Study in Supporting Learning and work on the following modules at Westminster:
2022-23 BA 3rd year Contemporary Issues in Media Policy (module leader); BA 3rd year TV Production dissertation supervisor
Previous teaching (2014-22):
MA: Global Media, Researching Media & Communication, Chinese Media, Media Management dissertation
BA: Contemporary Issues in Media Policy, Politics Journalism & Media, Researching Media & Communication, TV Production/BA Media Studies dissertation, Media & Globalisation, Media & Society, News & Public Opinion; Sound, Story, Image, Text
Research
My PhD research compared the news output of CCTV-News, the English-language 24-hour news channel of the Chinese state broadcaster (now renamed CGTN), with BBC World News Television between 2014 and 2016. My book, due in early 2023, extends this research further into the Xi Jinping era and the relaunch of CCTV-News as CGTN. I have also developed an experimental method of comparing news texts (published in Journalism Studies).
Publications
For details of all my research outputs, visit my WestminsterResearch profile.