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As a professor with a background in public service broadcasting (PSB), I’m often asked - What exactly is public service broadcasting?
Take a popular programme like Neighbours. From 1986 to 2008 it appeared on the BBC and was an important piece of PSB, popular with viewers, and valued for its airing of gritty but universal human themes […]
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At the BBC Editor’s blog Rod McKenzie asks if the Ross and Brand case is an open and shut case?
When we started covering the story on Newsbeat - the audience response was running two-to-one in Ross’s and Brand’s favour - now it’s swelled to six-to-one.
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For anyone who is angry with the BBC for allowing two radio presenters to bully and humiliate an elderly man, 78-year old actor Andrew Sachs, listen to this programme.
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What are the functions of journalism in a democracy? In an article probably drawn from his forthcoming book, Why Democracies Need An Unlovable Press, (order yours now) Michael Schudson gives six:
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Over at the BBC, Nicola Meyrick steps up to defend Analysis from 7 August 2008, Al-Qaeda’s Enemy Within, against the claim from a document leaked to the Guardian that suggested the programme was inspired by a government information unit.
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London Business School: David Currie, outgoing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital regulator) chairman.
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“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter.”
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