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Principal Lecturer (Journalism and News Media)

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 5033
Email : S.Tunney@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Media, Culture and Language
Office location : Queen's Building 008

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About

Dr Tunney was employed on local newspapers, as a senior reporter and sub-editor, before joining the Financial Times as a sub-editor. He subsequently worked as part of the news editing team on the Financial Times’ website FT.com. He is programme convener for Journalism and News Media.

Research Interests

His research interests are in web and citizen journalism, financial reporting, newspaper policy, political communications, modern British Labour Party history, social democracy and economic globalisation.

Publications

‘Prospects for Social Democracy: a critical review of the arguments and evidence’ (with J. Callaghan) in Contemporary Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2000.
'The End of Social Democracy?' (with J. Callaghan) in Politics, January 2001.
‘Neil Kinnock and Robert Maxwell’ in Media History, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2004.
'Choosing Voices: the Department of Health’s online interpretation of what patients want' (with J. Thomas), Public Management Review, forthcoming.
Labour and the Press: from new left to New Labour. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007.
Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship? (ed. with G. Monaghan), Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
‘Attitudes to newspaper ownership in the 1970s Labour Party’ in S. Harper and L. Foster eds, Culture and Society in 1970s Britain: The Lost Decade. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
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