Xin Xin
Xin Xin took up the RCUK Fellowship at the University of Westminster in October 2006.
She was originally trained in Russian in Beijing and received her MA in Broadcasting Journalism and PhD about the development of Xinhua News Agency and globalization at Westminster.
Before moving to London, she worked as a journalist in Beijing for seven years and spent a year in Moscow as a visiting fellow studying Russian language and mass media.
She is currently researching Chinese journalism and its relationship to the wider world while teaching postgraduates and undergraduates in media studies.
Her work has been published in journals, such as Media, Culture & Society (2006), and the book Communications Media, Globalization and Empire, edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett (2006).
She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC) and the editor of the issue Media in China.
Her research interests include Chinese journalism, media and globalization in non-Western contexts, news organizations, international communication and comparative media studies.
