Westminster Tales

Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, UK, who has specialized in media policy and politics for more than 20 years. Steven Barnett is Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, UK, and a prominent writer and broadcaster who has been involved in policy analysis at the highest levels, both nationally and internationally, for the last 25 years. Steven Barnett is senior lecturer in communications at University of Westminster, and the author of three books on the media. Ivor Gaber is Professor of Journalism at the University of Sussex, UK. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on the relationship between politics and the media. Before entering academia he was a political journalist at the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Sky News and is now an Independent Editorial Adviser to the BBC Trust.

• The crisis in political journalism; public opinion and the impact of political journalism; the contours of political coverage; broadcasters and political communications; the consequences of capitalism; does ownership matter?; controlling the news agenda: the politician's reposnse; raising the game: the Government Machine; the changing reporting environment; conclusion - reforming political news production.

"Because Steven Barnett and Ivor Gaber both know a lot about British broadcasting, another strength of their book is its useful account of the major political broadcasting controversies of the 1990s." --The Times Higher Education Supplement