He is the author of the academic best-seller Understanding the Media (3rd edition) (London: Sage, 2014). He is co-editor with Amanda Haynes, Martin Power, Aileen Dillane and James Carr of Public and Political Discourses of Migration (Rowman and Littlefield International: London, 2016). He has published extensively on media coverage of migration with Amanda Haynes and Michael Breen