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Lara Fielden

Author and Policy Analyst

Lara Fielden was an author and policy analyst who had an association with the Reuters Institute. Her research, publications, seminars and inquiry evidence seeked to inform the often polarised debate on reforming media regulation, through evidence-based, non-partisan analysis.

Lara’s RISJ Visiting Fellowship saw the publication of her 2012 report Regulating the Press: A Comparative Study of International Press Councils, commended by Lord Justice Leveson as “a monumental piece of work” and extensively cited in his Inquiry Report.

Prior to this the RISJ, in association with the Department of Journalism at City University London, published her book Regulating for Trust in Journalism: Standards regulation in the age of blended media which sets out proposals for a new regulatory settlement across broadcast, newspaper and digital content.

Lara’s work has been widely cited, both in the UK and overseas. It was informed by her experience of journalism as a television producer/director at the BBC, and as a regulator with Ofcom. She was an undergraduate at St Catherine’s College Oxford, where she read PPE, and a graduate trainee at London Weekend Television.

Lara had a range of governance and regulatory interests. She was the lead non-executive director of the London Community Rehabilitation Company (formerly the London Probation Trust) and served on the complaints committee of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Lara chaired the governing body at the Children’s Hospital School at Great Ormond Street and UCH and was a panel member for The Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service.