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Frances Yeoman

Liverpool Screen School

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

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Fran Yeoman runs the journalism department at LJMU and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level across our courses. She has received grants and funding from both the British Academy and Ofcom for her research into news and media literacy, on which she has worked with stakeholders including Ofcom, DCMS and the News Literacy Network. She is on the board of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance; the DSIT Media Literacy Taskforce Steering Board and Ofcom's Evaluation Working Group. She also has a research interest in court reporting and its impact on prisoners' families, and is working on a project on about this with Dr Lorna Brookes, funded by the Merseyside Violence Reduction Partnership. Before joining LJMU, she spent over a decade on national newspapers, most recently as Assistant Editor of i, where she oversaw the paper’s news output. She previously worked for the Independent and The Times, as a news editor and reporter, and spent a year as a political reporter based at Westminster. She has reported from countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Greece and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and co-authored a Rough Guide to South America. She holds a BA in Modern History and an M.St. in Historical Research from the University of Oxford, and completed her journalism training at the Press Association’s training centre. She continues to work as a journalist when time permits.

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