Jeanette Steemers,
University of Westminster, Harrow

Jeanette Steemers is Professor in Media and Communication at the School of Media, Arts and Design,
University of Westminster, Harrow, United Kingdom. Prior to entering academia in 1993 she worked for HIT Entertainment Plc, a children's television production company. She earned her PhD on Public Service Broadcasting in Transition: The Example of West Germany from the University of Bath, United Kingdom in 1990. Her recent research work has focused on media policy (particularly relating to digital television, public service media and new media) and the circulation of British television programmes overseas. Currently, she is working on the production ecology of pre-school television.

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Publications on Euromedia Topics

Media policy and regulation

Steemers, J., ‘Balancing Culture and Commerce on the Global Stage: BBC Worldwide ’ in Cultural Dilemmas in Public Service Broadcasting, eds. P. Jauert and G. Lowe (Göteborg: Nordicom, 2005), pp. 231-250. (refereed contribution).

Steemers, J., ‘In Search of a Third Way – Managing Public Purpose and Commerce in German and British Public Service Broadcasting’, Canadian Journal of Communications, 26, no. 1, (2001), pp. 69-87. ISSN 0705-3657; ISBN 526192001 (refereed article)

Media industry, economy and technology

Iosifidis, P., Steemers, J., Wheeler, M., European Television Industries (London: British Film Institute, 2005). (ISBN – 1-84457-059-2pbk/060-2 hbk) 212pp

Steemers, J., Selling Television: British Television in the Global Marketplace (London: British Film Institute, 2004). (ISBN 1-84457-022-3/ 055-x pbk). 240pp

Steemers, J., ‘No Longer “the best in the world”: The challenge of exporting British television drama’, Media International Australia, 115, May (2005), pp. 33-47. Special edition on drama, ‘Popular TV drama; Nation, Agency, Identity’, edited by Trisha Dunleavy (Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand) and Maria Peter Aquilia (Nanyang University, Singapore). ISSN 1329-878-X (refereed article)