Charlie Beckett

Charlie Beckett is the founding director of Polis, the journalism think-tank in the LSE's Media and Communications Department. He was an award-winning filmmaker and editor at LWT, BBC and ITN's Channel 4 News. He is the author of SuperMedia (Wiley Blackwell, 2008) which sets out how journalism is being transformed by technological and other changes and how that will impact on society. Polis is a public forum for debate about the news media in the UK and globally. Polis holds seminars, conferences and lectures and has published reports on topics such as social media, reporting politics, financial journalism, humanitarian communication and media and development.
The Director's Blog is www.charliebeckett.org
The Polis website is www.polismedia.org
He is on Twitter as @charliebeckett