The Telegraph’s Brexit poll is bogus, but broadcasters seem not to have noticed
Opinion polls exude an aura of scientific truth. Those numbers and percentages are so reassuringly solid, especially when generated by...
Media policy in Britain
Cairncross review: two cheers and two fears for the future of UK journalism
When the then culture secretary, Matt Hancock, first announced a government review of the future of “high-quality” journalism, there was...
Daily Mail: new editor and new ‘enemies of the people’
“Saboteurs endangering our nation,” bellowed the Daily Mail in a typical headline last month, suggesting that the leopard certainly hadn’t...
Queer in Your Ear: Connecting Space, Community, and Identity in LGBT BBC Radio Programs, 1992–2000
This article analyses two long-running gay and lesbian radio programs from the BBC from the 1990s to highlight different approaches...
LGBTQ+ and Radio/Audio Media Symposium Introduction
On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Uprising erupted from a routine police raid at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village...
Religious Intolerance: A challenge for the European Media
If one analyses the media in Europe today it becomes evident that there has been a rise and acceptance of...
Reform charity law to allow funding of public interest journalism
Reactions to Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative MacTaggart lecture were predictably mixed. But amid proposals that attracted both acclaim and opprobrium in...
Allegations against Fox insufficient for judicial review of merger decision (Avaaz Foundation v Ofcom)
Following the announcement of a merger between Sky News and 21st Century Fox, Avaaz Foundation, a global citizens’ movement which...
How can creating a public service internet challenge the power of Google and Facebook?
Jeremy Corbyn, in the Alternative Mactaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival on Thursday 23 August, stressed the importance of...
How Corbyn’s Plan To Tax Google And Facebook Could Create A Public Service Internet
Google and Facebook control about two thirds of the revenues in the online advertising market. Their duopoly poses problems for...
