‘Hackademic’ Andrew Calcutt was News, then Culture editor of Living Marxism/LM, and commissioning editor of one of the first online magazines in the UK, Channel Cyberia, before moving to East London to set up university courses in journalism.

He has written academic and ‘trade’ books, e.g. Arrested Development: pop culture and the erosion of adulthood, and BritCult: an A-Z of British popular culture. He currently edits Proof: reading journalism and society www.proof-reading.org and Rising East www.risingeast.org, published by the London East Research Institute, of which he is vice-chair. At UEL he is course leader of MA Magazines.