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Steven Barnett
Steven Barnett is Professor of Communications and a prominent writer and broadcaster on media issues. He specializes in media policy, regulation, journalism, political communication, press ethics, and televised sport. His immersion in media policy analysis goes back 25 years, during which time he has advised a number of government and opposition spokespeople, given evidence to parliamentary committees and the European Parliament, and has directed numerous research projects on the structure, funding, and regulation of broadcasting in the UK and other countries. His current research interests include public policy initiatives in media ownership, public service broadcasting, and the future of journalism. In July 2009 he was awarded a Research Leave grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a study on media ownership, journalism and diversity, completed in the summer of 2010.