Lincoln Professor’s Distinguished Career Honoured in New Book

The career of Brian Winston, one of the world’s leading authorities on media issues and Professor at the University of Lincoln, UK, is to be celebrated in a new book.

Edited by his University of Lincoln colleague and friend, Richard Lance Keeble, It’s the Media, Stupid! brings together ten original essays by leading international academic colleagues to celebrate Professor Winston’s distinguished career.

The essays cover three areas: documentary, free expression and the politics and ethics of the media, each of which have been specialisms of Professor Winston during a career that has spanned almost 60 years.

Professor Winston has occupied major roles in the broadcast industry and academy in both the US and UK and his achievements over the years have been recognised with numerous awards.

As well as securing prestigious international prizes for his books and films, Professor Winston was also the recipient of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement Writing for an Information Series in 1985.

As a teacher and writer of textbooks, he is admired by students and colleagues alike; in the book’s Introduction, Professor David Chiddick, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lincoln, describes him as ‘a generous, inclusive, empowering and transformative’ academic.

Professor Winston’s crowning achievement in his academic career came in 2007 when he was named The Lincoln Professor, the highest academic honour at his university; Brian will bring his accomplished career to a close when he retires at the end of the month.

Richard Keeble, Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln, said: “Brian has played a crucial role in my career, appointing me professor in 2003 and joining with me since then in a wide range of educational and publishing projects. The editing of this festschrift is one way in which I – and the other international colleagues – can thank him for being such an inspirational colleague.”