Des Freedman

Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of 'The Contradictions of Media Power' (Bloomsbury 2014), co-editor of 'The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance' (Pluto 2011), Vice-President of Goldsmiths UCU and former Chair of the Media Reform Coalition.

Gary Lineker Fulham FC event 2020. Photo: Flickr / MG_HF_Football Training_29 / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

BBC loses the plot

BBC sign, Norwich. Photo: Elliott Brown / Flickr / CC BY 2.0, license linked below article

Eight things you need to know about the BBC

Power and Prejudice: a Marxist account of the media – video

Andrew Neil. Photo: Financial Times / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

The news that’s not fit to print

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The Guardian and protest – 200 years of liberal anxiety

BBC Broadcasting House, London. Photo: Deskana / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 3.0, license linked at bottom of article

Richard Sharp: a suitable appointment for the BBC

Photo: BBC Newsnight

Does a biased media make change impossible? – explainer

Boris Johnson chairs a Covid-19 briefing, March 2020. Photo: Flickr/Andrew Parsons

Thick as thieves: coronavirus and the media

Photo: Des Freedman

Stop the cuts at Goldsmiths: the not–so-hidden costs of the higher education ‘market’

SOAS. Photo: Geograph

SOAS: a call to action to defend education as a public good

Jeremy Corbyn campaigning in Haverfordwest, December 2019. Photo: Flickr/Jeremy Corbyn

The class war election

Jeremy Corbyn surrounded by photographers. (Source: Wiki Commons)

General Election 2019: a party political broadcast for the Tories

UCU strike at University of Sheffield, February 2018. Photo: Geograph/Dave Pickersgill

University staff set to strike on pay and pensions

Jeremy Corbyn, 2016. Photo: Flickr/Plashing Vole

Corbyn is being smeared on antisemitism – and we need to deal with it

BBC Question Time, 17 January 2019

Question Time’s attacks on Diane Abbott are part of a pattern

Perfect Storm II. Photo: Emilio Küffer

Universities in 2019: facing the perfect storm