Co-Directors:
Professor Sylvia Harvey
sharvey@lincoln.ac.uk
Professor Richard Keeble
rkeeble@lincoln.ac.uk
Professor John Tulloch
jtulloch@lincoln.ac.uk
Centre for the Study of Media Policy, Regulation and Ethics (CEMPRE)
CONTEXT
CEMPRE was launched in 2006 to provide a focus for a number of
individual and group research projects. The Centre builds on the
work of the university’s AHRB Centre for British Film and
Television Studies (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council from 2000-2005), on the work of the Institute of
Communication Ethics and the journal Ethical Space currently
based at the University - and on new research developments
within the Department of Media Production and the Lincoln School
of Journalism.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
• To examine both historical and new developments in British
media policy (film, broadcasting, new media and the press) and,
where appropriate, to contribute to the solution of policy
problems.
• To undertake historical research relevant to policy issues.
• To undertake comparative research on media regulatory
institutions, policies and professionalisation in the UK and in
selected other countries.
• To situate our analyses of contemporary media and
communication ethics in the context of technological convergence
and international media business concentration.
PEOPLE
Academic staff
Dr Jane Chapman, Professor Sylvia Harvey, Professor Richard Keeble,
Dr Ola Ogunyemi, Mr Bryan Rudd, Professor John Tulloch, Professor Brian
Winston
Doctoral students
We-Che Hsu. Thesis topic: Public Service Broadcasting in Taiwan
and the UK; registration period: 2005- 2008.
Thomas Lyons. Thesis topic: The Future Production and
Distribution of Public Service Programmes on British Television;
registration period: 2005 – 2008.
Associates and Visiting Senior Fellows
Michael Fay, Visiting Senior Fellow in Media Policy and
Regulation, former Head of North Region, Independent Television
Commission.
Jan Worth, Visiting Senior Fellow in Creative Industries (Ethics
of Media Pedagogy, Script & E-learning)
Carole Tongue, Honorary Doctorate, University of Lincoln (Film
and Television Policy in a European Context)
Visiting Professors
• John Bird, founding editor of the Big Issue
• Dorothy Byrne, head of Channel Four news and current affairs
• Mike Jempson, director of the media ethics campaigning body
MediaWise
• Bridget Kendall, BBC diplomatic correspondent
• Phillip Knightley, veteran investigative reporter and author
of the seminal history of war reporters, The First Casualty
• Libby Purves, Times columnist, broadcaster, novelist
DIRECTORS
The Co-Directors of the Centre are Professor Sylvia Harvey, Professor Richard Keeble and Professor John Tulloch.
PUBLICATIONS
Publications by Centre Directors include:
• Harvey, S. (2004) ‘Living with Monsters: Can Broadcasting
Regulation Make a Difference?’ in A. Calabrese and C. Sparks (eds),
Toward a Political Economy of Culture, Rowman and Littlefield.
• Harvey, S. (2005) ‘Who Rules TV’, in J. Wasko (ed.) Companion
Guide to Television. Blackwell.
• Harvey, S. (2005) ‘Film Policy in the United Kingdom: New
Labour at the Movies’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3,
July-September, pp.420-429.
• Harvey, S. (2006) ‘Ofcom’s First Year and Neoliberalism’s
Blind Spot: Attacking the Culture of Production’, Screen, Vol.
47, No. 1, Spring , pp.91-105.
• Harvey, S. (2006) ‘Indigenous Culture and the Politics of
Place: Regulation for Regionalism in British Broadcasting’ in S.
Harvey (ed) Trading Culture: Global Traffic and Local Cultures
in Film and Television, Eastleigh: John Libbey.
• Keeble, R. (2001) Ethics for Journalists. London: Routledge.
• Keeble, R. (2005) The Newspapers Handbook. Fourth edition.
London: Routledge.
• Keeble, R. (ed.) (2005) Print Journalism: A Critical
Introduction. London: Routledge.
• Keeble, R. (2004): 'Information warfare in an age of
hyper-militarism', in Allan, Stuart and Zelizer, Barbie (eds)
Reporting War, London: Routledge
• Keeble, R. (ed.) (2005) Communication Ethics Today. Leicester: Troubador.
Professor Keeble is also the joint editor of Ethical Space: The
International Journal of Communication Ethics and a director of
the Institute of Communication Ethics.
•
Tulloch, J (1998) ‘Managing the Press in a
medium-sized European Power’ in Sex,Lies and Democracy
ed. Hugh Stephenson & Michael Bromley London: Longman.
•
Tulloch, J (2000) ‘The Eternal Recurrence of the New
Journalism’ in Tabloid Tales ed. Colin Sparks & John
Tulloch, Boston & London: Rowman and Littlefield.
•
Tulloch, J. (2004) ‘What
moral universe are you from?’ Everyday tragedies and the ethics
of press intrusion into grief, in Ethical Space, Vol.1 No.3.
• Tulloch, J (2005) ‘Normalising
the Unthinkable – the British press, torture, and the human
rights of terrorist suspects’, Ethical Space, Vol.2 No.4
Winter.
•
Tulloch, J. (2006)‘The
Privatisation of Pain: Lincoln newspapers and the end of public
execution in England’, Journalism Studies Vol.7 No.3
June.
•
Tulloch, J. (2007)
‘Exploring legal black holes:
Extraordinary Rendition, Investigative Journalism and the Moral
Imagination’ – in Communicating War: Memory, Media and
Military, ed. Sarah Maltby & Richard Keeble , Bury St
Edmunds: Arima Publishing.
•
‘Tabloid Citizenship: The Daily Mirror and the invasions of
Egypt (1956) and Iraq (2003)’, Journalism Studies, Vol.8,
No 1, February.
•
‘Hunting Ghost Planes: an interview with journalist
Stephen Grey’, Journalism. Theory, practice and criticism,
Vol.8, No.5 October.
• Tulloch, J. (2008)
‘Picnics on Vesuvius: the media and the problem of trust’ in
Beyond Trust – Hype and Hope in the British Media, ed. John
Mair & Richard Keeble, Bury St Edmunds: Arima Publishing
•
Tulloch, J. (2009)
‘Printing Devils - Reflections on the British press and the
problem of “evil”’ Ethical Space Vol. 6, No. 1.
Forthcoming
‘Conscience
and the press: UK media coverage of conscientious objectors in
World War 11’ in Journalism, War and Conflict
Resolution, ed Richard Keeble, John Tulloch and Florian
Zollmann, Oxford: Peter Lang
Details of publications by other Centre members are available on the staff website.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATES
Prof Claude-Jean Bertrand, Emeritus Professor, Paris 2
Dr Donald Matheson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Prof Clifford Christians, University of Illinois-Urbana, USA
Mr N. Ram, Editor in Chief, Hindu and chair of trustees of the
Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India.
RELATED ACTIVITIES
Related activities include:
• Advice to government departments in the UK and overseas
• Doctoral training events for Lincoln and UK students
• Specialist seminars and conferences include: ‘communications
policy’ with invited specialists from ten UK universities (May
2005); annual conference of the Institute of Communication
Ethics (July 2004)
• A regular programme of visiting speakers including Fareena
Alam, editor of the Muslim magazine Q News; Heather Brooke,
freedom of information expert and author of Your Right to Know; Philippa Kennedy, former editor of
Press Gazette; Yvonne Ridley,
eminent print and broadcaster journalist; Martin Bell, the
veteran war correspondent and former Independent MP; Roy Greenslade, Professor of Journalism at City University and media
commentator/blogger on the Guardian; Don Hale, international
award-winning investigative reporter; John Pilger, campaigning
investigative reporter; Marc Wadsworth, editor of the citizen
journalism website www.the-latest.com.