Peter Lewis

is a Senior Lecturer in Community Media in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, a Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor in Radio at Sunderland University. Crosstalk is a successor to META-Europe and earlier projects, discussed in From the Margins to the Cutting Edge - Community Media and Empowerment (Hampton Press, 2006), co-authored with Susan Jones. He is Associate Editor of The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media (to find at the website of Intellect Books). With Jerry Booth, he wrote The Invisible Medium: Public, Commercial and Community Radio (Macmillan 1989). His recent study of the Council of Europe, Promoting Social Cohesion: the role of community media, can be accessed at http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/Doc/H-Inf(2008)013_en.pdf