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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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A tale to sour the lingenberries on your meatballs (yes, Scandinavian story coming up). From the Guardian News Blog:
The Telegraph reports that academics in Denmark found the furniture chain [Ikea] was naming its cheaper products after Danish towns.
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British writer Nick Davies is an inspiration to a lot of young journalists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writing on social issues here). But now he has moved from covering drugs and criminal justice to report on journalism. And in doing so, he commissioned some research to back up his criticisms […]
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One of my favourite quotes on democracy (disowned by its originator alas), comes from British educator Derry Hannam:
Learning about democracy and citizenship in school is a bit like reading holiday brochures in prison.
Why do I trawl that quote up?
Well, BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, in an interesting and wide-ranging speech addressing the trust gap in public life, comes […]
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I am sorry to say I have never had much time for diplomats. Prejudice, you understand. Reading former British diplomat Carne Ross’s enjoyable and self-critical memoir - Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite - hasn’t exactly changed my mind.
But as well as reminding UK tax-payers that they could save a lot of money by flogging […]
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I had a chance to look over the memo from ITN’s Dave Mannion on the return of News At Ten. Without repeating it in full, it offers important insights into the thinking of one of Britain’s best television journalists.
We have been given a prime time slot. Our job is not simply to split the […]
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In 1972 the Roper Centre for Public Opinion Research in the United States began asking:
In general, how much trust and confidence do you have in the news media - such as newspapers, T.V.(television), and radio - when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and fairly - a great deal, a fair amount, not very […]
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A blog about how we inform ourselves and why: journalism, the media, news, communications and information
“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.”
Lasantha Wickrematunga
