Brian Winston

Brian Winston was the founding director Glasgow Media Group (‘Bad News’ and ’More Bad News’). A media professional, he has published widely on media ethics. His books include Messages: free expression, media and the West from Gutenberg to Google, published in 2005, and his most recent book A Right to Offend: free expression in the Twenty-first Century was published in 2012.

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Saturday 20 October 2012, 5.15pm Frobisher 4-6

Publications

A Right to Offend: free expression in the Twenty-first Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2010)
Messages: free expression, media and the West from Gutenberg to Google (Routledge, 2005)

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