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For Welsh language media to flourish, S4C needs popular support

Ron Jones 22 April 2010
Ron Jones responds to criticism of the Welsh broadcaster S4C with an analysis of its prospects

Let everyone watch the debate! Ten reasons to show it live on analog TV

Sunder Katwala 22 April 2010
Sunder Katwala calls for the BBC to broadcast the second general election debate

Changing the Channel

Mark Oliver 21 April 2010
Mark Oliver's January report commissioned by Policy Exchange

Differences on the right

David Graham 21 April 2010
David Graham responds to Mark Oliver's report on public service broadcasting reform

Are UK broadcasters being googled?

David Graham 19 April 2010
David Graham asks what the impact of You Tube's TV ambitions will be on the UK broadcasting market.

A monster threatens UK broadcasting? It's Sky, not the BBC

Justin Lewis 16 April 2010
By focusing on pruning the BBC, the media commentariat are losing sight of a greater danger to broadcasting in the UK, Sky.

The Tories and the BBC - a little line in the Manifesto points a finger at public broadcasting

Anthony Barnett 14 April 2010
The Tory manifesto in the UK's election battle signals hand-to-hand combat over the future of the BBC. OK's editor blows the trumpet for our Public Service Broadcasting Forum.

A cat and mouse game: The National Audit Office and the BBC

David Elstein 14 April 2010
The BBC continues to defend the privacy of its accounting from the National Audit Office. The BBC is proud of public trust in the organisation, but doesn't let the public know a great deal about where it spends public money.

The BBC's shoot a small puppy strategem

Richard Collins 12 April 2010
The BBC Strategy Review is given a duly cynical reading by Richard Collins

A guide to the recently passed Digital Economy Bill

8 April 2010
A guide to coverage of and responses to the passing of the Digital Economy Bill

How to save a public service broadcaster: what next for Channel 4?

David Elstein 6 April 2010
Channel 4 received a battering in the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee report last month. Can the broadcaster be made to return to its public service roots?

The heart of the matter

Anthony Barnett 5 April 2010
Conservative journalist Peter Oborne has demanded that David Cameron severs himself from Andy Coulson, who represents the interests of Murdoch at the pinnacle of the Tory party

The Ofcom pay TV review: what does it really mean?

David Elstein 2 April 2010
David Elstein, a former BSkyB head of programming, assesses the likely impact of Ofcom's attempt to take on one of the toughest players in the broadcasting market; his former employer.

Making consultation work: the BBC Strategy Review survey

Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal 2 April 2010
The BBC Strategy Review survey: a walk-through

Director General Mark Thompson's introduction to the BBC Strategy review

2 April 2010
Mark Thompson's foreword and overview from the BBC Strategy Review. The full review is attached.

Restating Scotland

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Democratic Wealth

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Thatcher's legacy

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G4S: securing whose world?

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Re-birth of the nation?

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Devalue or Else!

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Can Europe Make It?

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