Brian Winston

Brian Winston is the first Lincoln Chair of Communications at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. [http://www.visible-evidence.bee2b.de/blog/panel-9-winston Visible Evidence XIV » Brian Winston (University of Lincoln, UK): We Are Still in the Bath - RealityTV and the Challenge to Fiction ] ] [www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/review/UL_review.pdf] He was a Pro Vice Chancellor for 2005-2006 [ [http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/news/fact-figures.htm Facts and figures 2006/7 ] ] and the former dean of communications. [http://2005.aidc.com.au/2004/Brian_Winston.htm?check=1 featured guests ] ]

He is the former head of the faculty of Media and Cultural Studies at the [http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-130 University of Westminster] . [ [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/atoday/stories/s405852.htm Brian Winston: Lies, Damned Lies and Documentaries ] ] He is a former dean of the College of Communications at Penn State University (State College PA) and former chair of cinema studies at New York University. [http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:8QtmAwq0siUJ:imaging.dundee.ac.uk/main/events/+%22brian+winston%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=13&gl=us&client=safari] He was also the director of the Center for Journalism Studies at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. [ [http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1991/06/06-20-91tdc/06-20-91dnews-02.asp Communication's dean will return home for new position ] ] Winston was also a founder member of the Glasgow Media Group and a co-author of its first two books Bad News(1976) and [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/18439 More Bad News] (1980).

In 1985, he won an Emmy for documentary script writing. He has worked on television current affairs and features and as a print journalist. He is also known for being one of the first to write on the subject of documentary and ethics.

In this Internet Archive [http://www.archive.org/details/ddtv_100_brian_winston_reads_tv_news video] (13.35) from 1983, he analyzes TV network news. His book Media Technology and Society was named the best book of 1998 by the American Association for History and Computing.

Books

* Claiming the Real (1995)
* Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television (Paper - 1997)
* Media Technology and Society (Hardcover and Paper - 1998; Kindel - 2007 )
* Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries (2001)
* Messages (Hardcover and Paper- 2005; Kindle-2007)

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