Discussing the role of public service content (PSC) in the digital media landscape keeps raising the old unsolved question: can the market deliver? A Westminster Media Forum conference on June 22nd focused the market failure question on public service plurality: … Continue reading
The application of privacy laws on the Internet has sparked a heated debate between the media and regulators in the UK. While every day new details emerge from the News of the World phone hacking scandal, on 20 May a … Continue reading
Two articles published on the LSE Media Policy Blog and medialaws.eu, as News Corp’s bid for fully acquire BSkyB is about to be cleared by the UK Culture Secretary. 1. The challenge of measuring media plurality: Expert workshop at the … Continue reading
Watching TV, browsing the Internet, reading newspapers and making phone calls with a single device is not the future anymore. Digitalisation of information has been leading to a convergence era, where traditional boundaries between media sectors have blurred. As the … Continue reading
Once again, talking about media plurality inevitably means talking about Rupert Murdoch. Since News Corp announced its intention of totally acquiring BSkyB in June, the UK media have been in upheaval. The key question to which the EU Commission, OFCOM … Continue reading
On October 26th Beppe Severgnini, a leading Italian journalist, presented his latest book Berlusconi explained to posterity and foreign friends at the London School of Economics. My report of the event has been published on Polis Director Charlie Beckett’s blog … Continue reading
There’s no better way to start a blog by making George Orwell’s words mine: I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any … Continue reading