{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} Professor '''James Halloran''' (died 16 May 2007) was a [[British people|British]] [[communication]] scholar known for his contribution for the establishment of the field of [[media studies]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name="RTÉpioneer">{{cite web|title=Media Studies Pioneer James Halloran on Television 1964|url=http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0616/624208-media-studies-pioneer-james-halloran-on-television-1964/|website=rte.ie|publisher=[[RTÉ]]|accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref><ref name=hindustan>{{cite news|title=James Halloran, founder of media research, dead|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1272999881.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202740/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1272999881.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|accessdate=24 November 2014|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|publisher=HT Media Ltd|date=17 May 2007}}</ref> He was the head of [[Leicester University]]'s Centre for Mass Communication Research for over twenty years, and also a founder of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, (Formally known as The International Association of Mass Communication Research).<ref name=mosco>{{cite book|last1=Mosco|first1=Vincent| author-link=Vincent Mosco | title=The Political Economy of Communication|date=9 September 2011|publisher=Sage Publications|location=London|isbn=9781446204948|page=89|edition=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V57yrDMaO9oC&pg=PA89|accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref>

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