Gaza, African coverage and tonight’s RTS awards – breakfast table chat with...
This morning Al Jazeera English’s managing director, Tony Burman, held a breakfast meeting in London and invited journalists along to ask about latest developments at the channel. Burman is in town for...
View ArticleRoyal Television Society journalism award winners in full
As Tony Burman predicted, the ‘news channel of the year’ award at last night’s Royal Television Society awards didn’t go to Al Jazeera. Instead, it went to the BBC – who did rather well on the night in...
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Sir Michael Lyons on the BBC Trust, the licence fee and how it’s spent
Below a Wordle of last night’s speech from Sir Michael Lyons, chair of the BBC Trust, to the Royal Television Society, in which Lyons defended the Trust’s role as a guardian of the BBC licence fee: “In...
View ArticleBen Bradshaw’s speech in full: BBC has probably ‘reached limits of reasonable...
Ben Bradshaw’s speech from the Royal Television Society’s binnenial convention in Cambridge last night, his first since becoming the British culture secretary in June. In his speech he criticised James...
View ArticleMark Thompson on the defence: BBC review will be ‘radical and open-minded’
BBC director-general Mark Thompson yesterday responded to the various criticisms of News Corp’s James Murdoch and culture secretary Ben Bradshaw at the Royal Television Society’s binnenial convention...
View ArticleReuters: Google CEO raises doubts about Murdoch’s online pay walls
Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, yesterday questioned Rupert Murdoch’s plans to put general news content behind pay walls at some of the News Corp titles, Reuters reports. General news...
View ArticleBBC Trust responds to MPs’ accusations over commercial expansion
As reported by the Guardian, a report published today by the House of Commons culture select committee criticises the ‘arrogance’ of the BBC Trust and the BBC for brushing off MPs’ concerns over the...
View ArticleBBC Trust launches ‘its largest’ TV service review – into BBC One, BBC Two...
The BBC Trust today launched ‘the largest and most significant service review’ of television that is has ever undertaken, and seeks views on BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four. A 12 week public...
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