Intellect

Suzanne Franks is a former BBC TV current affairs journalist. She is now Director of Research at the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent. She is also attached to the Department of Politics and International Relations. Dr Franks spent the first decade of her career as a producer for BBC Television, working on programmes including Newsnight, Watchdog and Panorama. She also ran her own TV production company, Sevenday Productions, for more than fourteen years, producing a series of news and political programmes and documentaries for major broadcasters including Sky News, Channel Four, ITV and BBC Radio Four.

Her doctoral thesis was titled ‘Famine, Politics, Aid and the Media’. Her books include Dished!: The Rise and Fall of BSB (with Peter Chippindale); Having None of it: Women, Men and the Future of Work; and Get out of My Life. But First Take me and Alex into Town (with Tony Wolf).

She has also written a range of articles for academic publications such as Media History and Political Quarterly, as well as contributing to newspapers and magazines (from the Daily Mail to Prospect) and appearing on radio.