Professor Howard Tumber

Howard Tumber joined City University in 1988 and is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology. He was Dean of the School of Social Sciences for five years 1999-2004. Previous to that he was Head of the Department of Sociology 1996-1999. He is the author of seven books and has published widely in the field of the sociology of news and journalism, His recent work concerns the role of journalists and the reporting of international conflict.

He is the founder and co-editor of the journal:

Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism

Books include:

Journalists under Fire: Information War and Journalistic Practices (Sage 2006)

Media at War: the Iraq Crisis (Sage 2004)

Media Power, Policies and Professionals (Routledge 2000)

News: A Reader (Oxford University Press 1999)

Reporting Crime: The Media Politics of Criminal Justice (Oxford Univ. Press 1994)

Journalists at War (Sage 1988)

Television and Riots (BFI 1982)