Stephen Cushion is a Professor at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. He is currently a PI four on research projects that total more than £1.2m. This includes a three year £517,731 research grant awarded by the ESRC entitled 'Beyond the MSM: Understanding the rise of alternative online political media' (2019-2022); a two year £9,839.80 research grant awarded by BA/Leverhulme entitled 'Accurate or misleading? The portrayal of MSM in alt-left media' (2019-2021); A two year £579,183 research grant awarded by AHRC entitled 'Countering disinformation: enhancing journalistic legitimacy in public service media' (2020-2022); and an Ofcom review of BBC News and Current Affairs (2019-2020).