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About Steven Barnett

Steven Barnett is professor of communications at the University of Westminster and the author of several books on broadcasting. He writes a fortnightly column for the London Observer.

Articles by Steven Barnett

Friday 13th August

A familiar assault on the BBC: a response to David Graham's report for the Adam Smith Institute

The Adam Smith Institute and the wider right could never palate the success of any publicly funded institution, so their latest reports' prescriptions for the BBC come as no surprise, argues Steven Barnett.
Wednesday 22nd August

Money can't buy you broadcasting value

The old David Elstein understood what the new one has seemingly forgotten, that an obsession with cost leads to the worst of both worlds – inefficiency as well as an erosion of the creative spirit. It is time to rethink.
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