Martin Sims is a journalist and academic who specialises in communications policy
issues. He has first hand experience of the UK broadcasting sector, having worked
as a News Editor in independent radio then as a journalist for BBC network news.
In the last five years he has concentrated on broadcasting and telecoms policy,
lecturing at the University of East London and editing Intermedia, the policy
journal of the International Institute of Communications. He contributed a chapter
to The Handbook of Corporate Communications published by Routledge
in 2004. He has an MA in Communications from the University of Westminster.
Contributing
editors
Michael
Newlands
Mike Newlands has specialised in telecoms reporting for more than a decade, writing for Total Telecom, Telecom Paper, Point Topic, Global Technology Business, Infoconomy and various Informa Telecoms & Media publications during that time. For 20 years prior to that he covered telecoms as part of a wider business portfolio. He has lived and worked in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, Australasia, Hawaii and the UK. Publications he has written for include The Times. The Daily Express, The New York Times, Institutional Investor, Euromoney, Asian Business, the South China Morning Post and the South African Sunday Times. He has BSc (Hons) and BA (Hons) degrees.
Dugie Standeford
Dugie Standeford is a lawyer-turned-journalist. She specialises in telecom and Internet regulation, privacy and intellectual property issues. In addition to PolicyTracker, she regularly reports for Warren Communications News in Washington, DC, Privacy Laws & Business (UK) and Intellectual Property Watch (Geneva).
Nathalie Vandystadt
Nathalie Vandystadt is a French journalist specialised on EU affairs,
telecoms, Internet, copyright, privacy, justice,
immigration and home affairs. In addition to PolicyTracker,
she reports for Europolitics (Belgium), La Gazette Santé Social (France) and has just started to contribute to the daily French national newspaper La
Croix from Brussels .
She has a BA degree in French Literature and attended two MA in EU affairs and
journalism (La Sorbonne-Paris III and Celsa).
Jonathan
Watson
Dr Jonathan
Watson has worked as a business journalist for a variety of organisations including
Screen Digest, Analytica and Euromoney Publications, where he was Editor of
Broadcasting Strategy. He has written several business reports including
Broadband Internet access in Europe and a study of the global market
for video-on-demand, both for Screen Digest. He has a PhD in Modern History.
Subscriptions and sponsorship
Becky Brennan
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Becky Brennan has been PolicyTracker's subscriptions and sponsorship manager since 2006. She has worked in sales and new business development throughout her career, working both as an independent consultant and for a variety of companies in the media and conferences sector.
