Thursday, 22 January, 2009
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 […]
Wednesday, 29 October, 2008
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.
Tuesday, 28 October, 2008
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.
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:
Thursday, 2 October, 2008
Jim Gray, formerly of Newsnight, presides over Channel 4 News. And Google’s Peter Barron formerly of Newsnight, formerly of Channel 4 News, formerly of Newsnight leaves an empty editor’s chair. Wouldn’t Gray be the best person to fill it?
And the fact that Gray would not for one moment take that seriously, tells you everything you need […]
Wednesday, 27 August, 2008
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.
London Business School: David Currie, outgoing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital regulator) chairman.