Mcnicholas, Dr Anthony

Anthony Mcnicholas

Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
Email: mcnichc@wmin.ac.uk

Completed his PhD in Media and Communications at CCIS (predecessor of CAMRI) in December 2000. Since then he has taught on a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses but since 2002 has been principally engaged in research. He is chief researcher on an AHRC/BBC funded project to produce volume 6 of the official history of the BBC, covering the years 1975-1987, working with Prof Jean Seaton.

Research interests

The history of broadcasting, newspaper history, political communication, the media and nationalism, the media and religion. His PhD, now published, was a study of Irish political journalism in Victorian England.

He runs the BBC-History discussion list to be found at:

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/BBC-HISTORY.html

PhD Supervision

He has been part of the supervisory team for a number of students researching in the areas of broadcasting history and is currently supervising students working on the reporting of conflict in Latin America and politics in the Middle East.

Publications

He is the Editor of WPCC (Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture) and Principal Editor of Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture (Intellect, forthcoming, 2009)

Recent Publications

(2007) Politics, Religion and the Press: Irish Journalism in Mid-Victorian England, Oxford: Peter Lang AG

(2007) Co-operation, Compromise and Confrontation: The Universal News 1860-69 , Irish Historical Studies, Vol. XXXV, No. 139

(2007) Rebels at Heart: The National Brotherhood of Saint Patrick and the Irish Liberator, Media History, Volume 13 (1)

(2006) 'Only the Original Will Do!' in Nico Carpentier et al (eds)

Researching Media, Democracy and Participation: the intellectual work of the 2006 European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, Tartu: Tartu University Press

(2005) 'EastEnders and the Manufacture of Celebrity, Westminster Papers in  Communication and Culture, Vol. 2 (2), pp.22-36

(2004) Wrenching the Machine Around: EastEnders, the BBC and Institutional Change in Media, Culture and Society Vol 26(4)

(2004) With David Ward, The United Kingdom in The Media and Elections: A Handbook and Comparative Study. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates