Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Brian Winston is lincoln professor at the university of Lincoln. He is the author of numerous books on the media, has run media studies departments at universities in the UK and the USA, and, in 1985, won an Emmy award.
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Published in: ourBeebIntroducing Tony Hall’s cunning plan: The BB(&A)CTony Hall’s scheme for the BBC’s future has been widely disdained as a willful desire to put the clock back to the...
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Published in: ourBeebThe greater (and shorter) decriminalisation story: it's the physics of broadcasting, stupid
Brian Winston explains how the hypothecated tax and the BBC have gone together for the last 92 years like love and...
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Published in: ourBeeb‘monstrous flattery of the ego of the “common man”’; the BBC & the ‘popular’
Things need to change – there’s no disagreement about that; but the efficacy of starting with the closure of BBC 3...
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC and Government: time for some more light?
The BBC’s independence is enshrined in, and protected by, its Charter – but, in most discussion of the Corporation,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKScotland's future: a new national broadcasterYesterday, the Scottish government launched its blueprint for a new Scotland. This week, OurKingdom is examining...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCross-media power regulation could return Britain to the 17th century
How do we regulate for news plurality in the UK? Beginning with audience share is a farce, and would undermine our...