Category: Media

  • Need a decent Lighting pun here

    Jane Lighting has won the top job at Channel 5. Story from The Guardian. I’m making a serious attempt to link to newspapers other than The Guardian for media stories…

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  • Barry Cox on the future of the BBC

    Barry Cox’s second Oxford University lecture on the future of television, reprinted in

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  • 31p per day…

    Steve Barnett is a media academic and a prominent defender of British broadcasting’s mythic quality and distinctiveness – and, of course, the licence fee. In his response to Barry Cox’s…

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  • Barry Cox again

    On the strength of Barry Cox’s first provocative and wide-ranging lecture on the future of television, I’m looking forward to the next three. I don’t agree with everything he says…

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  • Net aversion

    Owen Gibson wonders why the ad agencies are still steering clear of the net.

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  • Carter gets it

    How does 15 years working his way up the greasy pole in an ad agency followed by two years in the number two spot at a collapsing cable firm prepare…

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  • How news is made

    Matt Wells writes up last week’s Oxford Media Convention in The Guardian. He focuses on Tessa Jowell’s broad hint that Greg Dyke “can’t take the licence fee for granted” at…

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  • The Oxford Media Convention

    My day in Oxford at the handsomely endowed Said Business School was fascinating – I’ve written a comment piece about it for The Guardian. Although billed as a conference on…

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  • Mark Thompson at The Oxford Media Convention

    Mark Thompson is Chief Exective of Channel 4. His speech at the Convention was outstanding. His principle point was that the old, Reithian language of public service means little to…

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  • Ed Richards at the Oxford Media Convention

    Ed Richards is The Prime Minister’s priniciple adviser on media matters. He’s a famously shadowy figure (he actually tried to dodge out of the frame as I took his picture!).…

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