Guests & Contributors

Diverse, informed and never short of opinion, our brilliant guests are the lifeblood of Renegade Inc. Dissecting the issues of our age from all angles, they never fail to inspire.

Author & Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmith, University of London

Professor Des Freedman

Des Freedman is interested in the relationship between media and power together with the political and economic contexts of media policymaking, regulation and reform. He was a founding member and recent chair of the Media Reform Coalition and was project lead for the Inquiry into the Future of Public Service Television chaired by Lord Puttnam. He is a former editor of the Sage journal ‘Global Media and Communication’ and has edited several strands for openDemocracy including ‘Anti-austerity and media activism’ (with Natalie Fenton and Gholam Khiabany), ‘Liberalism in neo-liberal times’ (with Gholam Khiabany, Kate Nash and Julian Petley) and ‘Capitalism and universities’ (with Michael Bailey). His latest books include Misunderstanding the Internet (2nd edition, Routledge 2016, with James Curran and Natalie Fenton) and The Contradictions of Media Power (Bloomsbury 2014).

Des is currently Deputy Head of Department and Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre.

Top of page