John Jenks
Professor, Communication Arts and Sciences
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
MSc, London School of Economics
Selected Publications
Review: Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media (Media History, 2021)
‘Crash Course’: The International Press Institute and Journalism Training in Africa, 1963-1975 (Media History, 2020)
Review: China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan. (American Journalism, 2018)
Commercial Temptation: Radio Piracy and the Comparative Transformation of Public Service Broadcast Policy in Britain, South Africa and India, 1930-1967 (The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2017)
The Scramble for African Media: Reuters, Thomson and Britain in the 1960s (American Journalism, 2016)
London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold War (Journal of British Studies, 2015)
Selected Presentations
Working their Cover: The CIA’s Forum World Features and the Political Economy of Covert Propaganda, 1966–1975, University of Lund, 2022
The Problem from Hell: Covering School Shootings in America, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2018
Crossed Signals: The British Labour Government and Cross-Border Commercial Radio after World War II, International Communication Association, 2018
Creating Experts: The Information Research Department and Access to Knowledge, 1947-1977, European Communication Research Education Association, 2017
Covert Propaganda and the Business of International Feature Syndication, 1960-77, Transnational Journalism History Conference, 2016
Awards and Grants
Fulbright Specialist Grant, , 2019
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