Suzanne Franks

Suzanne Franks is emeritus professor of Journalism at City St Georges, University of London. She is a former BBC TV News and Current Affairs producer who went on to found an independent TV production company. She  later moved into academia, initially at the University of Kent.  From there she was appointed to head  the Journalism Department at City, running the oldest and largest Journalism programme in the UK.  Her Phd, completed in 2007, was on the reporting of the 1984 Ethiopian famine and this was later published as a book, Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media (Hurst). Her other publications include Dished: The Rise and Fall of British Satellite Broadcasting  (Simon and Schuster), Having None of It: Women, Men and the Future of Work (Granta),  Women and Journalism (I.B.Tauris) and Get out of my Life, But First take me and Alex into Town (Profile Books). She has also published numerous articles, book chapters and academic papers and supervised many Phd students. At OCLW she will be working on a memoir about her family’s refugee background and the experience of migration.