Media historian David Hendy has won an international prize for outstanding journalism for a BBC radio 3 series.
Hendy was given the James W Carey Award in recognition of his work as writer and presenter of Rewiring the Mind, a series of five programmes that explored the way in which modern media have shaped mental life since 1900.
They were originally broadcast on Radio 3 in June 2010 and repeated in April this year.
The opening episode was praised by The Guardian writer Andy Dickson as "super-thoughtful - the best 15 minutes of radio for ages."
Hendy, who works in the school of media, arts and design at the University of Westminster, said he was thrilled at receiving the award.
It is the first time the award has been given to anyone outside north America. It is named after James Carey, a leading American communications scholar and professor of journalism at Columbia University who died in 2006.
Source: Westminster University PR
