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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat did the Public Service Broadcasting Forum achieve?The Public Service Broadcasting Forum, timed to coincide with the BBC's strategy review, is now closed. Here, the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews Corp's bid for BSkyB is a threat to British cultural expressionNews Corp's bid for full ownership of BSkyB not only threatens the plurality of news provision in the UK. The...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA Scandal at the heart of British government
Rupert Murdoch's News of the World has admitted that it illegally hacked into the phones of the famous and powerful,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRefuse the Met's demand for footage - An open letter to the BBC
An open letter to the BBC calling on them to mount a strong defence of the confidentiality of its journalists’...
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Published in: openEconomyNewsCorp BSkyB settlement says more about failures at Ofcom and BBC dominance than problems with Murdoch
The asymmetry of the UK's regulatory treatment of NewsCorp and the BBC needs examination. This paper was prepared...
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Published in: openEconomyUK regulator's Sky News deal will weaken media plurality
Sky News is a respected, trusted and high quality news provider in a UK television market dominated by the BBC. The...
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Published in: openSecurityMubarak’s thugs make a mockery of media neutrality
Media reporting of today's events in Cairo plays into Mubarak's hands and betrays the journalists risking their...
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Published in: HomeA press fit for the purpose?
Despite the Internet's growing significance as vehicle of freedom of expression, public service broadcasting and the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Media on Miliband: Yesterday's Newsnight revealed much about the media's attitude to Labour's leader.
Some political journalists are like weather vanes – they indicate the direction in which attitudes among the pack...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs it time for Murdoch's empire to be reined in?: A fascinating debate on News Corp's bid to take over BSkyBIs this the moment to halt the expansion of Richard Murdoch's media empire in the UK? An OurKingdom post, which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTake Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves
We should not mourn the passing of the newspaper or the decline of public service broadcasting, but ask instead what...
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Published in: HomeMedia power: Murdoch, the web and the BBC, as seen from the USA
The openDemocracy debate continues as Todd Gitlin responds to oD's Anthony Barnett and the Guardian's Alan...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan Murdoch be stopped? Britain examines its stable door
As with Italy, it is not just the failure to maintain public standards that damages the nation. A foreign media...
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Published in: HomeThe Web Estate: a response to Alan Rusbridger
The Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridger has published an important online overview of the ‘Fourth Estate’,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWorld news coverage evaporating in the UK
A new report shows that British media horizons are shrinking
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs Channel 4 News doing Osborne's dirty work?
The rhetoric and tone of a recent Channel 4 News piece on local council spending is more reminiscent of the Tax...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNation to nation: the problem of speaking for Britain
The BBC's flagship politics show, Question Time, gives an insight into the closed elitist mindset of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Media, the crisis, and the crisis in media
The financial crisis and a series of aggressive wars have demonstrated beyond doubt how prevailing forms of media...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Death Knell for the Licence Fee?
The freeze to the BBC licence fee announced on Wednesday was a defeat for viewers and listeners, for BBC staff, for...
