Sean Dodson, Course Director

Sean Dodson

Course Director

Senior lecturer and postgraduate leader in journalism at Leeds Beckett University. A judge of the 2012 Orwell prize.

Former journalist at The Guardian.

Current Teaching

  • Media and the public sphere
  • Editing and production
  • Magazine production

Research Interests

  • Journalistic codes of conduct
  • Ethics
Sean Dodson, Course Director

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Selected Outputs

  • Dodson S (2016) Baiting the reader: Identifying the newspaper version of clickbait. In: Mair J; Clark T; Fowler N; Tait R ed. Last words?: How can journalism survive the decline of print. Abramis, pp. 206-212.

  • Dodson SC (2013) Media context of contemporary public relations and journalism in the UK. In: Exploring Public Relations.

  • Dodson S (2012) Improving integrity online: Towards a Code of Conduct for journalism on the internet. In: Keeble L; Mair J ed. The Phone Hacking Scandal Journalism on Trial. Abramis,