Author Bio
Tamara Witschge is Research Associate at the Media and Communications Department at Goldsmiths, University of London and is working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Spaces of News’. Tamara is the General Secretary of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA).
Angela Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media & Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she teaches feature writing and journalism studies. She has been a journalist for over thirty years, starting in the alternative press of the 1970s and moving on to work for national newspapers, magazines, television radio and internet. She has worked regularly for the Guardian, The Sunday Times and a number of women’s magazines including Cosmopolitan, and more recently was invited to become one of the founding contributors to Guardian Comment is Free. She is a committee member of the Association for Journalism Education which brings together journalism practitioners teaching in higher education.
Peter Lee-Wright is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media & Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a member of the Leverhulme Media Research Programme. His career as a journalist-producer started at the BBC World Service and included spells with the BBC Caribbean Service, the Overseas Regional Service, BBC Continuing Education, the Open University and BBC Documentaries. As an independent and freelance producer, his work ranged from award-winning documentaries about the Stephen Lawrence case to a critically acclaimed feature drama for Working Title, Doomwatch: Winter Angel. His life-long involvement in documentary film will be explored at length in his monograph, The Documentary Handbook, due from Routledge late 2009.
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