Matthew Winston teaches in the school of Media, Communication, and Sociology at the University of Leicester. His research has examined the ‘Gonzo’ journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, and hybrid forms of literary journalism in general, the history of American journalism, theories of subjective journalism, and ideas surrounding media representations of drugs and drug culture(s). Most recently he has undertaken an extended research collaboration on ‘fake news’, and public perceptions surrounding it, with Prof. Brian Winston of the University of Lincoln.