BBC director-general, Tim Davie, has released a new plan to beef up fact checking in the public broadcaster’s news programmes.
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In the ‘post-truth’ age, what is needed is more public service media, not less.
Critics of the UK’s public broadcaster will be sharpening their knives over the latest scandal.
Ofcom’s duty is to regulate broadcasting on behalf of UK citizens. That appears to be under threat, both from internal forces and potentially from its next chair.
Funding cuts will force the national broadcaster to implement a root and branch reorganisation.
The UK government has set up a committee to report on the future of public broadcasting – sounds ominous.
Television is a 20th century medium that must change to survive in the 21st century.
We thought the phone hacking scandal would chasten News Corp. We were wrong.
If the commercial media has its way the BBC will end up cash-strapped and shackled by regulation.
If you want to see how the market failure model works, look across the Atlantic at PBS and NPR and be afraid.
Calls for the BBC to be regulated by an external body are part of a plan to shackle the public broadcaster.
Repeated surveys show that people value public broadcasters highly. But the political class isn’t listening.
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
Over the past 20 years the size of government spending has grown, both absolutely and as a percentage of GDP. Public sector debt has also increased substantially. The cautionary tale of Greece indicates…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
Due to Australia’s small population and high concentration of few media voices, public broadcasters play a pivotal role in shaping the media ecosystem and cultural landscape. With the ABC and SBS under…
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