Justin Lewis is a Professor of Communication and Creative Industries at the

Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) ( cy, Ysgol Newyddiaduriaeth, y Cyfryngau ac Astudiaethau Diwylliannol, Caerdydd) is Cardiff University's school for training in media. It is one of the journalism schools who ...

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. He is the Director of Clwstwr, an

Arts and Humanities Research Council The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), formerly Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB), is a British research council, established in 1998, supporting research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities. History The Arts an ...

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Welsh Government The Welsh Government ( cy, Llywodraeth Cymru) is the Welsh devolution, devolved government of Wales. The government consists of ministers and Minister (government), deputy ministers, and also of a Counsel General for Wales, counsel general. Minist ...

funded Research & Development innovation centre for the Screen and News sectors and media.cymru, a £50 million, 23 partner consortium, funded by

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Cardiff Capital Region The Cardiff Capital Region (CCR; cy, Prifddinas Ranbarth Caerdydd) is a City region (Wales), city region in Wales, centred on the capital city of Wales, Cardiff, in the southeast of the country. It is a partnership between the ten Local authori ...

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, designed to boost inclusive and sustainable media sector innovation in Wales. He is also Chief Field Editor for Frontiers in Communication, a global Open Access publisher. He was formerly the Head of School and Dean of Research for the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at

. In 2012, while in this role, he established the Centre for Community Journalism. In 2015, he became
co-founder
of Creative Cardiff, with

Ian Hargreaves Ian Richard Hargreaves CBE (born 18 June 1951 in Burnley) is Professor Emeritus (formerly Prof Digital Economy) at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Career His career in British journalism includes several beats at the ''Financial Times'', as well a ...

, a network that connects people working in any creative organisation, business or job in the Cardiff region. He has written widely about media, culture and politics. His books, since 2000, include ''Constructing Public Opinion'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), ''Citizens or Consumers: What the media tell us about political participation'' (Open University Press, 2005), ''Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq'' (Peter Lang, 2006), ''Climate Change and the Media'' (Peter Lang, 2009), ''The world of 24-hour news'' (Peter Lang, 2010) and ''Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination'' (Polity, 2013). He has written articles for ''

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'' and is a regular commentator on media, politics and cultural issues for regional and national US and UK media, including ''

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'', the ''

Today programme ''Today'', colloquially known as ''the Today programme'', is a long-running British morning news and current-affairs Radio program, radio programme on BBC Radio 4. Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am, it is produced by BBC N ...

'', BBC News, ''

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'', ''

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'', the NBC ''

Today Show ''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was ...

'', and ''

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''. Professor Lewis presented at the 2012

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xCardiff conference on the subject of consumer capitalism and the impact on media and communications.

Publications

* ''Art - Who Needs It?'', co-authored with David Morley and Russell Southwood. London: Comedia, 1986. * ''Art, Culture and Enterprise: the Politics of the Cultural Industries'', London: Routledge, 1990. * ''The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and its Audience'', New York: Routledge, 1991. * ''Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences and the Myth of the American Dream'', co-authored with

Sut Jhally Sut Jhally (b. 1955) is a professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose work focuses on cultural studies, advertising, media, and consumption. He is the producer of over 40 documentaries on media literacy topics a ...

. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992. * ''Viewing, Reading, Listening: Essays in Cultural Reception'', co- edited with Jon Cruz. Boulder: Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. * ''Constructing Public Opinion: how political elites do what they like and why we seem to go along with it'', New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. * ''Television Studies: The Key Concepts'', co-authored with Bernadette Casey,

Neil Casey Neil Casey (born July 28, 1981) is an American actor, writer, and comedian. He served as a writer on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2012 to 2013 and ''Inside Amy Schumer'' in 2014, receiving Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writin ...

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Liam French Liam is a short form of the Irish name Uilliam or the old Germanic name William. Etymology The original name was a merging of two Old German elements: ''willa'' ("will" or "resolution"); and ''helma'' ("helmet"). The juxtaposition of these el ...

, London: Routledge, 2001. * ''Cultural Policy: A Critical Reader'', co-written and edited with

Toby Miller Toby Miller (9 August 1958) is a British/Australian-American interdisciplinary social scientist with areas of concentration including cultural studies and media studies. He is also the author of several books, numerous articles, and is a guest c ...

, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. * ''Misleading media reporting? The MMR story'', co-written with Tammy Boyce, Nature Reviews Immunology 3(11), pp. 913-918. Nature Publishing Group, 2003. * ''Citizens or Consumers: The Media and the Decline of Political Participation'', co-authored with

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, Open University Press, 2005. * ''Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the War in Iraq'', co-authored with

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Terry Threadgold Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), A ...

, Peter Lang, 2006. * ''Climate change and the media: the scale of the challenge.'' In: Boyce, Tammy and Lewis - ''Climate Change and the Media'', Global Crises and the Media, vol. 5. New York, NY: Peter Lang, pp. 3-16, 2008. * ''Television Studies: The Key Concepts'', co-authored with Bernadette Casey,

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, London: Routledge, 2001, 2nd edition, 2008. * ''Prioritizing hand-shaking over policy-making: A study of how the 2007 devolved elections was reported on BBC UK network coverage,'' co-authored with Stephen Cushion and Christopher Groves. Cyfrwng: Media Wales Journal 6, pp. 7-32, 2009.

References

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