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Published in: ourBeebBBC Green Paper: red alert on funding
The government has promised a nit-picking examination of all the BBC does, focusing on how to redefine its mission...
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Published in: ourBeebThe licence fee is a fetter on the BBC
The creative and journalistic ambitions of the BBC are held back by its dogmatic commitment to an ineffective and...
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Published in: ourBeebEditor's blog: £3m for Clarkson, £42m for CBeebies - how the BBC spends its money
There are some fascinating insights into how much each BBC channel costs, and how they're paid for, in the Annual...
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Published in: ourBeebourBeeb podcast 1: Claire Enders, Britain's leading media analyst
The first audio highlights of an ourBeeb discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing the BBC, featuring...
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Published in: ourBeebThe BBC and the future of broadcasting: special report from Enders Analysis
The first report from a scintillating ourBeeb discussion with Claire Enders, Britain's leading media analyst, finds...
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Published in: ourBeebA Freedom of Information request, the BBC, and the case for subscription
The BBC’s paternalistic conflation of the license fee with universalism is increasingly indefensible against...
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Published in: ourBeebHow much did the BBC spend on the Hackney Weekend - and why won’t they tell us?
Should the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain incorporate hosting free music festivals for 100,000...
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Published in: ourBeebNationalise the BBC
Throughout its history, the stature of the BBC has depended upon an active suppression of nationality - silencing...
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Published in: ourBeebA corporation run by bankers, not journalists: who are the BBC Trust?
Private industry is extremely well represented among the Beeb's trustees and directors, from bankers to energy and...
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Published in: ourBeebFight for the World Service: the globally respected voice of Britain is getting fainter
The BBC World Service has lost resources and its much loved home in Bush House; by 2014 it will have lost a quarter...
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Published in: ourBeebFairer, better quality, more dynamic: the end of the licence fee and the case for subscription
The retention of the unique licence fee system for funding the BBC has sustained a lot of criticism in recent years,...
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Published in: ourBeebTrust, universalism and funding the BBC: video highlights of a debate with Greg Dyke
Video highlights of a debate over the future of the BBC with Greg Dyke, Lis Howell, Liz Forgan, Helena Kennnedy,...
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Published in: ourBeebChange or die: the future of the BBC
The BBC is one of Britain's great institutions. But, like all other public broadcasters, it faces threats from the...
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