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Stephen Cushion  BA (E Anglia), MA (Wales), PhD (Wales), PGCE (Wales)

Professor Stephen Cushion BA (E Anglia), MA (Wales), PhD (Wales), PGCE (Wales)

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Ysgol Newyddiaduraeth, y Cyfryngau a Diwylliant

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CushionSA@caerdydd.ac.uk
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+44 29208 74570
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Sgwâr Canolog, Ystafell 2.58, Caerdydd, CF10 1FS
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Dr Stephen Cushion is a Reader at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies. He is part of the school's REF 2021 committee and is leading a potential REF impact case study.

He has written three sole authored books, News and Poitics: The Rise of Live and interpretive Journalism, The Democratic Value of News: Why Public Service Media Matter (2012, Palgrave) and Television Journalism (2012, Sage), one co-authored book, Reporting Elections: Rethinking the Logic of Campaign Coverage (2018, Polity Press, with Richard Thomas) and co-edited The Future of 24-Hour News: New Directions, New Chalenges (2016, Peter Lang, with Richard Sambrook) and The Rise of 24-Hour News: Global Perspectives (2010, Peter Lang with Justin Lewis). Overall, Stephen has also published over 30 journal articles and almost 20 book chapters on issues related to news, politics and journalism. He is on the editorial board of several leading academic journals, including Journalism StudiesJournalism PracticeJournalism: Theory, Practice and CriticismJournalism Education and Journal of Applied Journalism and Media

Stephen has been PI on three BBC Trust Impartiality Reviews and Co-I on one. The first two (in 2008 and 2010) led to a 4* rated REF impact case study (receiving the regional impact award from Cardiff University). He was also PI on an ESRC funded project, Television News, impartaility and the 2017 UK general election campaign.

Stephen has successfully supervised many MA dissertations and PhD dissertations to completion, acted as an internal and external PhD examiner and chaired vivas. In 2017, he became JOMEC’s director of Postgraduate Research Studies.

Stephen regularly presents research at international and UK conferences, and has co-organised major academic conferences, such as the 2015 Future of Journalism conference, which included co-editing a special edition of three journals based on selected papers.

He welcomes PhD proposals in the area of political communication and journalism studies, particularly topics related to election reporitng, the mediatization of politics, and the impact of 24-hour news culture, or issues about journalistic balance, objectivity and impartaility, as well as broader inquires about media ownership and public service broadcasting, and internationally comparative news studies. 

Stephen has recently supervised the following students to completion:

Afful, Ebo (2017) Journalism, Election Campaigns and Democracy in Ghana.

Kilby, Allaina (2014) Satire for sanity: An examination of media representation and audience engagement with The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity

Fitzgerald, Patrick (2014) Legitimising dissent? British and American newspaper coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

Reardon, Sally (2013) Accounting for News: A discourse analysis of the talk of television journalists.

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Cyllid allanol/REF Astudiaethau achos

Rwyf wedi bod yn PI ar bedwar prosiect grant ESRC: 'Tu hwnt i'r MSM: Deall cynnydd cyfryngau gwleidyddol ar-lein amgen' (£517,731.20), 'Newyddion Teledu a didueddrwydd: Adrodd Ymgyrch Etholiad Cyffredinol y DU 2017' (£42,765), 'Newyddion Teledu a didueddrwydd' (£11,000) ac 'Adrodd Etholiad Cyffredinol y DU 2015' (£3000). Cynhyrchodd hyn £574,496.20 mewn incwm ymchwil.

Rwyf hefyd wedi bod yn PI ar grant ymchwil dwy flynedd £9,839.80 a ddyfarnwyd gan BA/Leverhulme o'r enw 'Cywir neu gamarweiniol? Y portread o MSM yn y cyfryngau alt-chwith '.

Rwyf wedi bod yn PI ar dri adolygiad didueddrwydd Ymddiriedolaeth y BBC am sylw yn y cyfryngau i ddatganoli neu ystadegau (yn 2009, 2015 a 2016), a gynhyrchodd £220,258 o incwm ymchwil. Datblygwyd prosiect 2009 yn astudiaeth achos effaith 4* ar gyfer cyflwyniad REF JOMEC yn 2014. Derbyniodd hefyd y wobr effaith ranbarthol gan Brifysgol Caerdydd yn 2013. Rwy'n cyd-arwain astudiaeth achos REF yn 2021 am effaith ein hymchwil ar ddidueddrwydd newyddion y BBC (yn seiliedig i raddau helaeth ar dri phrosiect yr oeddwn yn PI).

Rwyf wedi bod yn Gyd-ymchwilydd ar dri phrosiect arall: dyfarniad o £38,665 gan yr Adran Cymunedau a Llywodraeth Leol ar sylw yn y cyfryngau Prydeinig o ddynion a bechgyn du ifanc, dyfarniad o £63,487 gan brosiect Ymddiriedolaeth y BBC ar Adolygiad Didueddrwydd y Cenhedloedd ac adrodd ar ddatganoli yn y DU, a phrosiect comisiwn Ewropeaidd gwerth £173,229 o'r enw 'Eurosphere' sy'n ymwneud â maes cyhoeddus Ewrop.

Ar y cyfan, fel naill ai PI neu Co-I rwyf wedi gweithio ar ddyfarniadau grant allanol gwerth dros 1 miliwn o bunnoedd.

Rolau golygyddol/sgyrsiau cyhoeddus/cynadleddau 

Rwy'n Olygydd Cyswllt cyfnodolyn mewnol blaenllaw, Journalism Studies, ac yn aelod o fwrdd golygyddol Journalism Practice, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Journalism Education a Journal of Applied Journalism and Media studies.

Rwy'n cyflwyno ymchwil yn rheolaidd mewn cynadleddau rhyngwladol a'r DU, yn ogystal â bod yn siaradwr gwadd mewn ysgolion rhyngwladol blaenllaw. Tra'n ysgolhaig gwadd yn yr Unol Daleithiau ac Awstralia yn 2016 a 2018, rhoddais sgyrsiau ym Mhrifysgol Austin, Prifysgol George Washington, Prifysgol Sydney, Prifysgol Melbourne, Prifysgol Swinburne a Phrifysgol Queensland Technoleg.

Rwyf wedi cyd-drefnu cynadleddau academaidd mawr, gan gynnwys nifer o gynadleddau Dyfodol Newyddiaduraeth Prifysgol Caerdydd (2013, 2015, 2017 a 2019), cynhadledd MECCSA 2007 ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd a chyn-gynhadledd ICA 2018 ym Mhrâg.

Addysgu

I coordinate the following modules

MA - Introudction to Political Communication (Autumn)

PhD - Method workshop (Autumn)

BA - The Making and Shaping of News (Spring)

PhD - Issues in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (Spring)

Stephen welcomes PhD proposals in the area of political communication and journalism studies, particularly topics related to election reporitng, the mediatization of politics and 24-hour news, balance, objectivity and impartaility, media ownership and public service broadcasting, and internationally comparative news studies. 

He welcomes PhD proposals in the area of political communication and journalism studies, particularly topics related to election reporitng, the mediatization of politics, and the impact of 24-hour news culture, or issues about journalistic balance, objectivity and impartaility, as well as broader inquires about media ownership and public service broadcasting, and internationally comparative news studies. 

Stephen has recently supervised the following students to completion:

Afful, Ebo (2017) Journalism, Election Campaigns and Democracy in Ghana.

Kilby, Allaina (2014) Satire for sanity: An examination of media representation and audience engagement with The Daily Show’s Rally to Restore Sanity

Fitzgerald, Patrick (2014) Legitimising dissent? British and American newspaper coverage of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

Reardon, Sally (2013) Accounting for News: A discourse analysis of the talk of television journalists.

He currently supervises the following students:

Steven Buckley ‘EMOTIONALLY CHARGED: TO WHAT EXTENT DOES FOX NEWS UTILISE EMOTION WHEN REPORTING ON NEWS FEATURES?’

Gong, Shunlin 'TO DISCUSS AND COMPARE THE ROLE OF SEX IN BRITISH AND CHINESE TELEVISION ADVERTISING'

Petra Kovacevic  ‘READING BETWEEN THE LINES AND SEEING BEYOND THE WORDS: WHO IS A CONSTRUCTIVE JOURNALIST?’

Moza Al-Rawahi ‘THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON POLITICAL COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIOUR: A CASE STUDY OF THE SULTANATE OF OMAN’

Binakuromo Ogbebor ‘MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF THE NEWS OF THE WORLD PHONE HACKING SCANDAL’

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Employment

Employment-present: Reader and Director of Postgraduate Research Studies and MA in Political Communication at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Jan 2012-August 2015: Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA in Political Communication at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Jan 2006-2012: Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

May 2005-June 2005: Research Assistant at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies for a project on local and regional press coverage of the 2005 general election. This involved developing an appropriate methodological framework for the content analysis, coding many 100s of articles, inputting them into SPSS, generating the results and co-authoring the findings.

May 2003-June 2003: Research Assistant at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies for a project on the way the Welsh media reported the 2003 National Assembly for Wales election.

Education 

2002-2006 Doctor of Philosophy, ‘Protesting their apathy: Young People, News Media and Citizenship’ at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, October 2006

2001-2002 MA in Journalism Studies (distinction): Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University.

1998-2001 BA Hons. Film and Media (2:1) University of East Anglia, Norwich.

2008  Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (PCTUL). The aim of the qualification is to enable participants to become more competent, confident and reflective university teachers, capable of critically evaluating and developing their own teaching and learning approach in order to facilitate high quality student learning.

Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau

2017: Principal Investigator, ESRC Award, Television News, impartaility and the 2017 UK general election campaign. (£42, 765)

2016: Principal Investigator on a BBC Trust project on Nations Impartiality Review and devolution in the UK. (£70,704)

2015-2016: Principal Investigator on a BBC Trust project on Impartiality Review about reporting of statistics. (£70,285)

2015-2016: Principal Investigator on a BBC Trust project on Nations Impartiality Review and devolution in the UK. (£79,269)

2015: Principal Investigator University ESRC initiator fund to support research about the 2015 General Election (£3000)

2015: JOMEC Impact and Engagement and seedcorn Funding (£2000) to support research about the 2015 General Election

2015: Principal Investigator on a Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (CUROP) project (£1,360) about how Buzzfeed reported the 2015 UK general election

2014: Principal Investigator on a Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (CUROP) project (£1,360) about television news reporting of the 2014 EU Elections

2013:  Regional impact award at Cardiff University (a JOMEC impact REF submission) for the Follow up review of Accuracy and impartiality in coverage of the 4 nations funded by the BBC Trust. This included a £1,000 award towards research

2009-2010: Principal Investigator on a BBC Trust project on Nations Impartiality Review and devolution in the UK. (£69,372)

2008-2010: Co- Investigator (with Kerry Moore and John Jewell) on a project for the Department for Communities and Local Government on British media coverage of young black men and boys (£38,665)

2007-2008: Co-Investigator (with Justin Lewis) on a BBC Trust project on Nations Impartiality Review and devolution in the UK (£63,487)

2007-2008: Co-Investigator on a European commission project entitled ‘Eurosphere’ on the European public sphere (£173,229). I joined this project after funding had been secured to help develop a methodological framework for the analysis of print and broadcast news across 15 European countries. This involved managing a large team of researchers and training them in relevant research methods.

Meysydd goruchwyliaeth

Mae Stephen yn croesawu cynigion PhD ym maes astudiaethau cyfathrebu a newyddiaduraeth wleidyddol, yn enwedig pynciau sy'n ymwneud â phoritng etholiadol, cyfryngu gwleidyddiaeth, ac effaith diwylliant newyddion 24 awr, neu faterion am gydbwysedd newyddiadurol, gwrthrychedd ac anrhandod, yn ogystal ag ymholiadau ehangach am berchnogaeth cyfryngau a darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus, ac astudiaethau newyddion cymharol rhyngwladol.

Goruchwyliaeth gyfredol

Edel Anabwani

Ms Edel Anabwani

Myfyriwr ymchwil

Keith Magnum

Mr Keith Magnum

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Max Modell

Mr Max Modell

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Ymgysylltu

Ymgysylltu/Effaith

Ynghyd â chydweithwyr yn Ysgol Newyddiaduraeth, y Cyfryngau a Diwylliant Caerdydd, mae'r Athro Stephen Cushion wedi cydweithio â nifer o sefydliadau newyddion a rheoleiddwyr cyfryngau i helpu i wella ansawdd newyddiaduraeth ddarlledu yn y DU. Mae wedi gweithio gydag Ymddiriedolaeth y BBC ac Ofcom, er enghraifft, ac wedi ymgysylltu ag uwch olygyddion newyddion yn y BBC, ITV, Sianeli 4 a 5, a Sky News.  Wrth wneud hynny, nod ymchwil Cushion's fu adolygu arferion golygyddol a gwella safonau newyddiaduraeth, megis cryfhau canllawiau ynghylch adrodd ar y cenhedloedd a gwleidyddiaeth ddatganoledig yn y DU, Yn enwedig yn ystod pandemig y coronafeirws, gwella sut mae newyddiadurwyr yn defnyddio ystadegau, ac yn fwy eang gwella ystod a dyfnder yr allbwn newyddion.

Mae enghreifftiau diweddar o'r ymchwil hwn yn cynnwys:

Adrodd am wleidyddiaeth mewn DU ddatganoledig

Cushion, Stephen et al (2015) Dilyniant Adolygiad Didueddrwydd y Pedair Gwlad 2015: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/impartiality/2016/cardiff_university_2015.pdf

Cushion, Stephen, et al (2016) Adolygiad Didueddrwydd y Cenhedloedd: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/impartiality/2016/cardiff_university_2016.pdf

Y defnydd newyddiadurol o ddata ac adroddiadau rheolaidd o ystadegau

Cushion et al (2016) Adolygiad Didueddrwydd o Adrodd Ystadegau'r BBC: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/our_work/stats_impartiality/content_analysis.pdf

Gwella ystod a dyfnder rhaglenni newyddion mewn newyddiaduraeth darlledu

Cushion, Stephen (2019) Ystod a Dyfnder Newyddion a Materion Cyfoes y BBC: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/174205/bbc-news-review-content-analysis-full-report.pdf