John Steel is a lecturer in Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches courses on journalism and political communication, freedom of speech and censorship. He has published in the areas of popular journalism, theoretical approaches to journalism and its history, and the theory and practice and journalism education.

• Introduction: Free Speech Under Attack? 1: Philosophy of Free Speech 2: Freedom of Speech and the Journalistic Impulse 3: Journalism and the Democratic Imperative 4: Journalism, New Media and the Global Public Sphere 5: Regulating Broadcast Journalism 6: Privacy, Libel and the Public Interest 7: Libel and the Public Interest 8: Security and Insecurity 9: Ownership 10: Constitutive Censorship: News, Language and Culture

John Steel is a lecturer in Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches courses on journalism and political communication, freedom of speech and censorship. He has published in the areas of popular journalism, theoretical approaches to journalism and its history, and the theory and practice and journalism education.

• Introduction: Free Speech Under Attack? 1: Philosophy of Free Speech 2: Freedom of Speech and the Journalistic Impulse 3: Journalism and the Democratic Imperative 4: Journalism, New Media and the Global Public Sphere 5: Regulating Broadcast Journalism 6: Privacy, Libel and the Public Interest 7: Libel and the Public Interest 8: Security and Insecurity 9: Ownership 10: Constitutive Censorship: News, Language and Culture

John Steel is a lecturer in Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches courses on journalism and political communication, freedom of speech and censorship. He has published in the areas of popular journalism, theoretical approaches to journalism and its history, and the theory and practice and journalism education.

• Introduction: Free Speech Under Attack? 1: Philosophy of Free Speech 2: Freedom of Speech and the Journalistic Impulse 3: Journalism and the Democratic Imperative 4: Journalism, New Media and the Global Public Sphere 5: Regulating Broadcast Journalism 6: Privacy, Libel and the Public Interest 7: Libel and the Public Interest 8: Security and Insecurity 9: Ownership 10: Constitutive Censorship: News, Language and Culture