Professor Jane Singer has been invited to become a Peer Review College member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

The AHRC was established in 2005 and has an annual budget of over £75 million.

It supports ìhigh quality research and postgraduate training in the arts and humanitiesî and Jane, as a member of the Peer Review College, will review research proposals in her own area of expertise, digital journalism.

Jane, who is the Johnston Press Chair in Digital Journalism, said: ìI am honoured to be a part of this body, and Iím looking forward to learning about the research that colleagues in the UK are doing.î

She was congratulated by the Dean of Lancashire Business School, Professor David Hamblin. He said: ìThis is a real mark of esteem for yourself and worthy of celebration by the Department. It is a real delight to see the research strengths of the Department of Journalism honoured in so public a forum.î

Book publication

The invitation comes just as Janeís first book is published. ìOnline Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions,î co-authored with Cecilia Friend, discusses ethical issues and questions that journalism practitioners and academics encounter in the online medium.

Jane said: ìI’ve always been interested in journalism ethics, especially as journalists move into a digital environment. I think ethics become increasingly important when anyone can publish news and we look for ways to identify the information sources we can trust.”

Whilst it is the first book that Jane has written, she has written chapters for other books and has more planned, including an encyclopaedia entry and a chapter for a book due out in December entitled ìGlobal Journalism Research.î

She is also due to receive the 2007 Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award. This will be presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Washington, DC, for an article Jane wrote on journalists’ roles and norms in an online environment.

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