David Hesmondhalgh

David Hesmondhalgh is the author of The Cultural Industries (Sage Publications). He works in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University in the UK.

Brexit, the Somme and football

Often it seems that the deep historical roots of people’s experiences of exclusion go unconsidered.

By David Hesmondhalgh

/ 8 Jul 2016

Ownership is only part of the media picture

The media ownership debate in openDemocracy was launched recently by two distinguished US commentators. Robert McChesney argued that media monopoly had disastrous implications for democracy. Benjamin Compaine responded with a

By David Hesmondhalgh

/ 29 Nov 2001