LSMedia or Liverpool student media at liverpoolstudentmedia.com is a brand new website launched by the University of Liverpool's students to promote and support talented Liverpool student's creative written, visual or radio content.

University of Liverpool’s communication studies school is in the top 15 in the country. The 2008 subject rankings published by The Times place the department at 13th out of 84 universities for communication and media studies. The staff have recently had to face a low grade in the RAE exercise due to politics assessors using social sciences journals to judge their performance. As a media department communication studies staff publish their work in arts and humanities journals.

The flawed research assessment along with the fact that philosophy had performed well in the last assessment show a worrying trend and a contempt from senior management towards university.

These however are not the only contradictions coming from the strategic management team. In trying to pacify the media outlets the university stated "The university is one of only four institutions in the UK that will receive an increase of more than 8% in research grant income from the Higher Education Funding Council. This allocation rewards excellence across a range of areas, but especially science, engineering and medicine.”

This statement fits uneasily with the university’s own homepage which declares “The University of Liverpool has been awarded the highest rating from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for postgraduate courses, which is set to provide more than £3 million of funding for arts and social science-based subjects.”  a statement that it made on the very day staff found out only because of a leaked document that departments were to be closed.