- Director of Media, Film, Journalism and Creative Technology, University of Salford
Richard is the Director of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Salford.
He is the author of Reporting the Courts (Routledge 2024) and Sports Journalism in the UK (2026).
Previously, he worked as Subject Area Leader for Media, Journalism and Film at the University of Huddersfield, and before that was a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer there.
Prior to entering academia, Richard worked in online, radio, TV and print journalism. He was variously a journalist, producer and broadcaster for Sky News, BBC Radio 5 live and Xfm among many others, and established the Saddleworth News hyperlocal journalism site
Experience
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2023–presentHead of department, University of Salford
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2020–2023Subject area leader, University of Huddersfield
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2017–2020Senior lecturer, University of Huddersfield
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2013–2017Lecturer, University of Huddersfield
Contact Richard for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Salford
- BlueSky: @rlwjones.bsky.social
- LinkedIn: richard-jones-748a4068/
- X (formerly Twitter): @rlwjones
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
