Blair Jenkins outlines plans for a Scottish Digital Network to provide public service content in Scotland
Victoria Holland reports from the recent Future of British television symposium, held 27 May 2010
A successful, intimidating prime minister has moulded Italy’s public life in his own image. A fearful, supine opposition is paralysed by his achievement. But there is one source of hope, says Geoff Andrews.
When it comes to religious fundamentalisms women's rights activists say Shakespeare was wrong: the way we name things does affect the way we engage with them. To address the phenomenon more effectively, it's better to use the duck test.
A symposium on the future of public service broadcasting organised by openDemocracy and hosted by the Department of Journalism at City University, Thursday 10 June
On May 18, the Ukrainian Security Services paid a strange visit to Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Their goal, it seems, was to ensure his students would not take to the streets to protest against the new President when he arrived in town the following day. Gudz
The Institute for Welsh Affairs gives its verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: it shockingly ignores the national question after a decade of devolution
Directors UK, the union of television and film directors gives its verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: public space means more than institutions and it fails to recognise the importance of the UK's creative community
Staff at the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre give their verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: its proposals "would lead to a reduction in quality, would signify a shrinking of ambition and would undermine the public space facilitated by the BBC"
The Newspaper Society gives its verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: boundaries aren't properly set and the incursion into the provision of local news continues.
The Writers' Guild, a union representing professional writers, gives its verdict on the BBC Strategy Review: its terms are ambiguous, and there is an insufficient commitment to break the mould of conservative dramas, sitcoms and sketch shows.
