John Tulloch







'A little bit Salem': Rebekah Brooks, of News International, and the construction of a modern witch

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Note on the contributor

John Tulloch is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is co-director of the Centre for Journalism Research (CRJ). Previously (1995-2003) he was Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Westminster. Edited books include Tabloid tales (2000) (edited with Colin Sparks) Peace journalism, war and conflict resolution (2010) (edited with Richard Lance Keeble and Florian Zollmann), and Global literary journalism (edited with Richard Lance Keeble, 2012). He has also written recently on extraordinary rendition and on the journalism of Charles Dickens, Gitta Sereny and Gordon Burn.