Professor Stephen Cushion

Elected: 2026

Area(s): Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences

Specialist Subject(s): Journalism, media and communication

Professor at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University

Professor Cushion has published extensively about journalism and communication. He has been commissioned by regulators such as Ofcom to produce evidence-based studies about the quality and impartiality of news. He has had a major impact on the editorial standards of news output, such as improving the accuracy of how devolved politics is reported in UK news.