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Sean Dodson

Course Director

Leeds Business School | Sustainable Business Research Institute

Senior lecturer and postgraduate leader in journalism at Leeds Beckett University. A judge of the 2012 Orwell prize.

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About

Senior lecturer and postgraduate leader in journalism at Leeds Beckett University. A judge of the 2012 Orwell prize.

Former journalist at The Guardian.

Degrees

BA (hons) Journalism
London College of Printing, London, United Kingdom | 1995 - 1998

Languages

Spanish; Castilian
Can read, write, speak and understand

Research interests

Journalistic codes of conduct
Ethics

Publications (3)

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Improving integrity online: Towards a Code of Conduct for journalism on the internet

January 2012 The Phone Hacking Scandal Journalism on Trial Abramis

Authors: Dodson S, Editors: Keeble L, Mair J

This is the sixth in a series of books coming out of the Coventry Conversations Conferences held jointly with the BBC College of Journalism and the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln.

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Baiting the reader: Identifying the newspaper version of clickbait

2016 Last words?: How can journalism survive the decline of print Abramis

Authors: Dodson S, Editors: Mair J, Clark T, Fowler N, Tait R

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Media context of contemporary public relations and journalism in the UK

2013 Exploring Public Relations

Dodson SC

Exploring Public Relations is the definitive academic text on Public Relations. Now in its third edition, the book is essential reading on courses in PR at undergraduate and postgraduate level.