Fran Yeoman

Fran Yeoman is Associate Professor in Journalism & Media Literacy and runs the journalism department at LJMU. 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, DSIT and the News Literacy Network. She is a trustee of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance and sits on Ofcom’s Making Sense of the Media Advisory Panel, as well as being a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the APPG on Media and Political Literacy and the research advisory group of the Public Interest News Foundation. Before joining LJMU, she spent over a decade on national newspapers, including 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.