United Kingdom

Like Jeff Jarvis, Charlie Beckett, and Richard Sambrook, I too was at Ditchley recently for a conference on the media and democracy. Present company excepted, it brought together a fascinating and lively group of people (not always the case at conferences).
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly Britain’s man at the UN and in Iraq (and someone who speaks […]

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The European Court of Human Rights could be greenlighting the kind of political advertising that the United States has grown used to.
Russ Taylor at Ofcomwatch alerted me to the ruling.
 My caveats?

The Government doesn’t want it
Newspapers don’t want it
Political parties can’t afford it.

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The Columbia Journalism Review takes on a familiar trope - the scarcity of attention - and riffs on it in relation to journalism.
Attention—our most precious resource—is in increasingly short supply. To win the war for our attention, news organizations must make themselves indispensable by producing journalism that helps make sense of the flood of information that […]

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The Financial Times has a trenchant critique of BBC Worldwide and its impact on the public service broadcasting debate.
But who exactly is the person ‘familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking’ that they quote? Or the leading London banker? Don’t be tempted by the obvious jigsaw identification.
A person familiar with the BBC Trust’s thinking says: “The […]

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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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If you want an illustration of the brilliance and fragility of the blogosphere, take a look at Ofcomwatch. It’s a blog about the world of UK communications regulation which, let’s face it, is about as effervescent as a day-old glass of Alkaseltzer, and the bulk of its posts are the heroic work of Russ Taylor.

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