Prof. Steven Barnett questions plans to decriminalize the non-payment of the BBC license fee
Prof. Steven Barnett spoke to Channel 4 news about reports that the new Conservative government is reviving plans to decriminalise non-payment of...
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New Report: Public service broadcasting in the age of video on demand inquiry
The Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee have published the finding of their enquiry on Public Service Broadcasting. The report,...
Anastasia Denisova discusses how memes spread (and why we can’t stop them)
Anastasia Denisova recently appeared on BBC Ideas to discuss how social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, are changing...
Christian Fuchs discusses Twitter on BBC Radio 4
A BBC Radio 4 programme, hosted by David Baker, and broadcast on the 18th December, asks how did Twitter, invented...
Jean Seaton interviewed for BBC’s ‘Being Gerry Adams’
Thirty years ago the British government took an almost unprecedented decision - to ban the voices of Sinn Fein and...
Steven Barnett discusses what Cliff Richard versus the BBC means for press freedom
On Wednesday Sir Cliff Richard was awarded a minimum of £210,000 in damages after successfully suing the BBC for a...
Why was there no news on 18th April 1930?
On 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of...
Jean Seaton on BBC World Service
Jean Seaton recently appears on the BBC World Service's Click programme to discuss Orwell and the Future of Surveillance. "If...
Orwell Statue unveiled at the BBC
On the 7th November at Broadcasting House in London, the BBC erected a statue to the author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’,...
Matthew Linfoot will speak on all 40 BBC Local Radio stations this Sunday
Dr Matthew Linfoot with be a contributor on ‘Friendly Radio’, a radio documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of BBC Local...