Frances Yeoman
Liverpool Screen School
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: F.H.Yeoman@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 4837
Fran Yeoman runs the journalism department at LJMU and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level across our courses. She holds a British Academy grant for her research into news literacy, on which she has worked with stakeholders including Ofcom, DCMS and the News Literacy Network. Before joining LJMU, she spent over a decade on national newspapers, most recently as Assistant Editor of i, where she oversaw the paper’s news output. She previously worked for the Independent and The Times, as a news editor and reporter, and spent a year as a political reporter based at Westminster. She has reported from countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Greece and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and co-authored a Rough Guide to South America. She holds a BA in Modern History and an M.St. in Historical Research from the University of Oxford, and completed her journalism training at the Press Association’s training centre.
Report
Behavioural Insights Team , Yeoman F, Yates S. 2023. Media literacy uptake among ‘hard to reach’ citizens Publisher Url Public Url
Yeoman F, Morris K. 2022. Media literacy, evaluation and Ofcom: stakeholder perspectives (internal Ofcom report with public-facing exec summary)
Internet publication
Yeoman F. 2023. Should news organisations be responsible for teaching news literacy? Publisher Url
Yeoman F, Morris K. 2020. Why media education in schools needs to be about much more than 'fake news' Publisher Url
Davies R, Yeoman F. 2018. Philanthrophy Should Fund the Media for its Own Sake in Alliance Magazine
Journal article
Yeoman F, Morris K. 2023. The Place of Media Organisations in the Drive for Post-pandemic News Literacy Journalism Practice, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Yeoman F. 2023. The challenge of defining news literacy: Perceptions from the UK news literacy sector Journalism, DOI Publisher Url
Morris K, Yeoman F. 2021. Teaching Future Journalists the News: The Role of Journalism Educators in the News Literacy Movement Journalism Practice, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Yeoman F, Morris K. 2019. Mapping the HE news literacy landscape in the UK Journalism Education, 8 :69-78 Publisher Url Public Url
Chapters
Yeoman F, Morris K. 2023. The Agenda-Setting Power of Fake News Fowler-Watt K, McDougall J. The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation :265-278 Springer Nature 9783031119767
Yeoman F. 2022. Journalists and Social Media: Entering an 'ethical vacuum' Duncan S. Ethics for Journalists Routledge 9781138585263
Conference presentation:
"Pedagogic public relations?" Perceptions of media industry involvement in UK news literacy education, Global Media Education Summit, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Oral presentation. 2023
Teaching a Broader Journalism: Developing the Resources to Embed Inclusivity and Diversity in the Journalism Curriculum, Association of Journalism Educators Winter Conference 2023, Oral presentation. 2023
“Fast food companies teaching children about nutrition”? The place of media organisations in the drive for post-pandemic news literacy, Cardiff Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff University/ online, Oral presentation. 2021
Mapping the HE News Literacy Landscape, World Journalism Education Congress, Paris, Oral presentation. 2019
Research Grants Awarded:
British Academy, Exploring challenges and best practice in digital inequalities: A case studies approach from the perspective of policymakers in England, Professor Simeon Yates, University of Liverpool (PI), Grant value (£): 24,998, Duration of research project: 7 months. 2023
British Academy/ Leverhulme, News Literacy: Understanding the UK Landscape, Kate Morris, Goldsmiths, Grant value (£): 9734, Duration of research project: 2 years. 2022
External committees:
Becoming NewsWise Advisory Board, Becoming NewsWise (funded by Nuffield Foundation), Board Member. 2022
Media Literacy Taskforce Steering Board, UK Government, Member, https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/media-literacy-taskforce-steering-board. 2022
Teaching qualification:
PG Cert HE. 2018
Fellowships:
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Higher Education Academy. 2018