Academic articles

Articles / chapters

  • Barnett, Steven and Townend, Judith (2014) ‘Plurality, Policy and the Local’, Journalism Practice. published online 9 September 2014
  • Barnett, Steven and Townend, Judith (2014) ‘And What Good Came of it at Last?’ Press–Politician Relations Post-Leveson’, The Political Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 2, April–June 2014
  • Barnett, Steven and Greenslade, Roy (2014) ‘Can charity save the local press?’ British Journalism Review 2014: 25: 62
  • Barnett, Steven (2012), ‘It’s Ownership, Stupid: why plurality lies at the heart of media policy reform, and how to achieve it’ in The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial, 2nd edition, eds Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair, Arima Publishing, pp352-364
  • Barnett, Steven (2012), ‘Imposition or empowerment? Freedom of speech, broadcasting and impartiality’ in Freedom of Expression and the Media, eds Merris Amos, Jackie Harrison and Lorna Woods, Martinus Nijhoff, 2012, pp45-71
  • Barnett, Steven (2010),  ‘Dangermen: over to you Mr Cable’ in British Journalism Review, Vol 21 No 4, pp13-18
  • Barnett, Steven (2010), ‘Media ownership policy in a recession: redefining the public interest’ in Interactions, Vol.1 No.2, Autumn 2010, pp217-232
  • Barnett, Steven (2010), ‘What’s wrong with media monopolies? A lesson from history and a new approach to media ownership policy’. London School of Economic Electronic Working Paper No 18, January 2010
  • Barnett Steven (2009), ‘Journalism, Democracy and the Public Interest: rethinking media pluralism for the Digital Age’ Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Working Paper, September 2009 [PDF]
  • Craufurd Smith, R (2013) ‘Reviewing Media Ownership Rules in the UK and Europe: Competing or Complementary Investigations?’ Journal of Media Law, Volume 5, Number 2, December 2013, pp. 332-344(13)
  • Craufurd Smith, R. and Tambini, D. (2012), ‘Measuring Media Plurality in the United Kingdom: Policy Choices and Regulatory Challenges’ Journal of Media Law 35-63
  • Craufurd Smith, R., Tambini, D. and Morisi, D. (June 2012), LSE Media Policy Brief 7, Regulating Media Plurality and Media Power in the 21st Century [PDF]
  • Co-ordinating Committee for Media Reform (now MRC) (2011) ‘The Media and the Public Interest’ [PDF]
  • Doyle, Gillian (2014) (in press) ‘Why ownership pluralism still matters in a multi-platform world’ in Valcke, P., Picard, R and Sükösd, M (Eds) Media Pluralism: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends, London: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Doyle, Gillian (2013), ‘Economic and cultural aspects of media ownership’, in Throsby, D and Ginsburgh, V (Eds), Handbook on the Economics of Art and Culture (2nd ed), Amsterdam: North-Holland, 357-377
  • Doyle, Gillian (2013), ‘Private Television in the United Kingdom: A Story of Ownership Integration’ in Private television in Western Europe: Content, markets and policies, Donders, K. Pauwels, C and Loisen, J (Eds), London: Palgrave MacMillan, 70-84
  • Doyle, Gillian (2012), ‘Audiovisual Services: International Trade and Cultural Policy’, ADBI Working Paper 355, Tokyo, Japan: Asian Development Bank Institute
  • Doyle, Gillian (2010), From Television to Multi-platform: less from more or more from Less? Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, November, 16(4): 431-449
  • Fenton, Natalie (2013) ‘Cosmopolitanism as conformity and contestation: the mainstream press and radical politics.’ Journalism Studies vol. 14 No.2
  • Fenton, Natalie (2013) ‘News Journalism, New Media, Democracy and the Public Interest’ Medienjournal, 3:19-38
  • Fenton, Natalie (2011) ‘Telling Tales: Press, Politics, Power and the Public Interest‘ Television and New Media 13(1):3-6
  • Fenton, Natalie (2011) Guest Editor, Special Edition: ‘Rupert Murdoch and Empire’ Television and New Media 13 (1)
  • Fenton, Natalie, ‘Regulating for democracy: current issues in news and journalism’ Invited submission for a special issue on Creative Imagination: a post neo-liberal order in media and communication regulation? For Continuum: The Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 25(1): 63-72
  • Gibbons, Thomas (forthcoming) ‘Active pluralism: Participation and engagement as basic public media policy principles’, International Journal of Communication
  • Gibbons, Thomas (2004) ‘Control over Technical Bottlenecks: A Case for Media Ownership Law?’ IN S. Nikoltchev (ed.), Regulating Access to Digital Television: Technical Bottlenecks, Vertically Integrated Markets and New Forms of Media Concentration (2004) IRIS Special, European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg, pp.59-67
  • Gibbons, Thomas (2000) Pluralism, Guidance and the New Media, IN C. Marsden (ed.) Regulating the Global Information Society (2000) Routledge, pp.304-31
  • Harcourt, Alison (2014) ‘Observations on the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications Report on Plurality’, Journal of Media Law, Volume 6, Number 1, July 2014, pp. 1-7(7)
  • Harcourt, Alison (2013) “Participatory gains and policy effectiveness: the OMC Information Society”, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 51, no. 4
  • Harcourt, Alison (2012) “‘Cultural Coalitions’ and International Regulatory Co-operation”, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 50, no. 5, 709-725
  • Harcourt, Alison (2012) “Transnational Regulation in Central and Eastern Europe”, in Downey J, Mihelj S (eds) Central and Eastern European Media in Comparative Perspective: Politics, Economy and Culture, Aldershot: Ashgate, 137-157.
  • Harcourt, Alison (2010) “The role of the European institutions in national media regulation”, in Papathanassopoulos S, Negrine R (eds) Communication Policy: theories and issues, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 116-132.
  • Harcourt, Alison and Robert Picard (2009) “Policy, Economic, and Business Challenges of Media Ownership Regulation”, Journal of Media Business Studies, no. 3, 1-17
  • Media Reform Coalition (January 2013), ‘The elephant next door: a survey of international media ownership regulations’ [PDF]
  • Murphy, K. and A. White (2007) Watching the Directive: sports rights and public culture in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 3 (3), pp. 253-269.
  • Rushton, D. (2008) Devolving Broadcast, Wireless Broadband and Spectrum Allocation: Making a Case for Devolution and Subsidiarity [PDF]
  • Stolte, Y. and Craufurd Smith, R., ‘The European Union and Media Ownership Transparency: The scope for regulation intervention’ Open Society Foundation, University of Edinburgh, June 2010 [PDF]
  • Warner, N. (2013) IPPR report: ‘Life after Leveson: The challenge to strengthen Britain’s diverse and vibrant media’

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  • Woods, L. (2012) ‘Beyond Murphy, Films and Football: Audiovisual Content in Europe’ 4(2) 
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  • Woods, L. (2012) ‘Consistency in the Chambers of the ECJ: A Case Study on the Free Movement of Goods’ 
(2012) Civil Justice Quarterly 339-367
  • Woods, L. (2008) ‘The Consumer and Advertising Regulation in the Television without Frontiers and 
Audiovisual Media Services Directives’ (2008) Journal of Consumer Law and Policy 63-77
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Woods, L (2006) ‘Freedom of Expression in the EU’ (2006), 12 European Public Law 371-401


Special reports

Books

  • Andrea Czepek, Melanie Hellwig, Eva Nowak (eds) (2009) Press freedom and pluralism in Europe: concepts and conditions, Intellect
  • Doyle, Gillian (2002), Media Ownership: The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the UK and European Media, London: Sage Publication
  • Freedman, Des (2008) The Politics of Media Policy, London: Polity
  • Gibbons, Thomas (2012) Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure: Comparative Cases from North America and Europe (with Peter Humphreys)
  • Gibbons, Thomas (1998) Regulating the Media (1998) 2nd ed. Sweet & Maxwell
  • Hitchens, Lesley (2006) Broadcasting Pluralism and Diversity, A Comparative Study of Policy and Regulation, Hart
  • Iosifides, Petros (2013) Global Media and Communication Policy, Palgrave
  • Karppinen, K (2013), Rethinking Media Pluralism, NY: Forham University Press
  • Klimkiewicz, B (ed) (2010) Media Freedom and Pluralism: Media Policy Challenges in the Enlarged Europe, CEU Press
  • Komerek, Ewa (2012) Media Pluralism and European Law, Wolters Kluwer
  • Napoli, Philip (ed), 2013, Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics, Routledge
  • Woods, Lorna (2007) European Broadcasting Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press (with Jackie Harrison)
  • Woods, Lorna (2012) Steiner and Woods on EU Law (11th ed) Oxford University Press (with Philippa Watson)
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Woods, Lorna (2012) Freedom of Expression and the Media, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (with Jackie Harrison and Merris Amos)