Ian Hargreaves

Ian Hargreaves (born June 18, 1951 in Burnley , Lancashire ) is a British journalist and media scholar . He is Professor of Digital Economics at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University and Cardiff Business School.

Hargreaves worked for eleven years in various positions at the Financial Times until 1987 , where he headed several departments over the years. For the next three years he worked for the BBC, where he oversaw a major reorganization of the newsroom as Director News and Current Affairs before returning to the Financial Times. From 1994 to 1995 he was editor-in-chief of the Independents and from 1996 to 1998 editor-in-chief of the New Statesman . Then he moved to the university.

He chaired the commission that produced the Digital Opportunity Report , better known as the Hargreaves Report or Google Review , on the future of intellectual property rights in the UK in 2010/2011 .

For BBC Radio 4 he is a participant in the Moral Maze program .

Publications

• Journalism: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Journalism: Truth or Dare. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• 'New Mutualism in from the Cold' 42 pages, 1999 Co-operative Press: London

Web links

• Brief portrait at Cardiff University
• Brief introduction to the Intellectual Property Office
• Portrait on BBC4
• Portrait at Powerbase