Natalie Fenton is a Professor in Media and Communications and joint Head of Department in the Department of Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is Co-Director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre (where she is part of a team researching issues relating to the news) and Co-Director of Goldsmiths Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. She has published widely on issues relating to news, journalism, civil society, radical politics and new media and is particularly interested in rethinking understandings of public culture, the public sphere and democracy. Her most recent books are (2010) New Media, Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age (ed.) Sage; and (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet (with James Curran and Des Freedman) Routledge. Her next book New Media and Radical Politics will be published by Polity.