Specialist Journalism

About the Author

Sharon Wheeler lectures in journalism at the University of Portsmouth. She is the author of Feature Writing for Journalists (2009), co-editer of The Journalistic Imagination with Richard Keeble (2007), editor of www.reviewingtheevidence.com, a large independent crime fiction review website, and part of the blogging team at http://heydeadguy.typepad.com/heydeadguy/. Sharon has worked extensively as a journalist, and written a wide range of features and reviews for newspapers, magazines, websites and academic journals. At different times she has covered sport, music and education. Barry Turner has worked on both sides of publishing, as an editor and marketing director and also as an author. He has been a full time writer for over 30 years and has worked as a journalist and broadcaster in the fields of politics, biography, travel and education. As well as being the author of over 20 books, Barry is the editor of The Statesman's Yearbook and is a regular contributor to The Times as a book reviewer and serializer. He is a Senior Lecturer in Media Law and Public Administration at the University of Lincoln and at Birmingham City University. I also teach in Forensic and Biomedical Sciences and in Mental Health Law Richard Orange is a Senior Lecturer in Media Law and Public Administration at the Lincoln School of Journalism, a visiting lecturer at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism, Nottingham, and an external examiner at Cardiff University's Journalism School. He is managing director of Orchard News Bureau Ltd, which specialises in local government affairs, and is a regular contributor to Press Gazette. Richard spent 16 years as a news and political reporter in the regional newspaper industry in Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire and Avon. He also edits a travel book on winter sports destinations.