Is it possible to save traditional media companies in the face of the twin threats of a digital revolution and the recession? That question has not only been asked with increasing urgency over the past couple of years, it has stimulated plenty of answers too.
Read full article...It is time for journalists to rebuild a relationship with politicians. This sounds crazy after the expenses debacle and in view of the daily drip-drip of poison administered to MPs in newspapers on a daily basis.
Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be cheerful
Media analysis: It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain responsibilities
It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence
It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence
Plan to charge for online news is raising doubts about his leadership
I admire Andrew Marr’s work as a broadcaster and writer. He combines political sophistication and a deep knowledge of his subject with an almost boyish enthusiasm
Imminent deal could be a major fillip after years of under-reporting of local law courts and councils
Media analysis: What a great wheeze it must have seemed to the Government to solve the problems of commercial TV companies and advertisers by suggesting the ban on product placement could be lifted
To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief because of its significance to the O’Reilly family, most notably its patriarch, Sir Anthony John Francis O’Reilly
The final sentence of James Murdoch’s speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival was hugely significant: “The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit"
Our commentator argues that, after his own experience in court, Sir David Eady is a threat to press freedom
The disgraced former Downing Street spin doctor, Damian McBride, broke his silence on Monday by giving interviews in print and on radio in an obvious attempt to rescue his reputation
The News of the World phone-hacking scandal took another giant stride forward yesterday with the evidence presented to the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee
It is difficult to be sure of the springboard for David Cameron's sudden assault on Ofcom, the media regulator, though I am prepared to make a guess. Before I speculate, however, let's first consider his substantive arguments
Does the BBC have a death wish? I dislike lining up with the corporation's knee-jerk critics, but I have to admit that I am rapidly becoming an exasperated supporter of Britain's, and the world's, most renowned public service broadcaster.
Lord Carter's report maps out a future direction for the media industry - but he has left too many issues unresolved in the wilderness, says Roy Greenslade
The BBC's greatest fear looks as if it is to become reality. If the reports of it losing its sole right to the TV licence fee prove true then it will be a severe blow to the Corporation's director-general, Mark Thompson, and his executive staff
Tomorrow a judge will be asked to decide whether the police are right to demand that a journalist hand over her notes, phones and computers in order to discover how she obtains her stories
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