Dr Sean Tunney

Biography and research interests

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.

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

Publications: Books

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, forthcoming.

Publications: Chapters and journal articles

‘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.

‘Attitudes to newspaper ownership in the 1970s Labour Party’ in S. Harper and L. Foster eds, British Culture in the 1970s, forthcoming.