Profile

Clare Cook

Senior lecturer in print and online journalism

School of Journalism, Media and Communication

Greenbank 244

+44 (0)1772 894737

cecook@uclan.ac.uk

Clare graduated from the University of Hull with Special BA Hons in European Studies and has since completed her National Certificate Journalism and NCTJ. She became a fellow of the Higher Academic Institute with her PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning.
She is an award-winning journalist having worked with Newsquest and was a Press Gazette nominee on an exclusive French murder investigation.
She has worked for ten years on various national and regional print newspapers and magazines. She worked as chief celebrity sub editor for new! magazine before moving into academia.
She is online at www.clarecookonline.co.uk. Follow @cecook. Often found writing or mountain biking with her husband at http://www.mountainbikeskills.co.uk 

Projects

Clare is a specialist in social media and online journalism. She is currently co-authoring a book to be published in 2013, Social Media for Journalists.

She has experience working with magazine publishers such as Haymarket on quantitative analysis. Her research papers include exploratory uses of social media in the coverage of the EU elections and Lisbon Treaty,
pedagogic research into teaching and assessing engagement in social media, as well as a conference paper; County Magazines: lost in cyberspace? argues how county magazines are turning their back on digital extensions

She is often found at conferences including #bbcsms #news:rw #futureeveryting #mindtrek

Teaching

Teaching

Clare is Course Leader for BA (Hons) Media Management.