Roy Greenslade

13.01.10

Media: Fox News brings Rupert Murdoch vast profits and huge reach in the US, but has the channel become a monster out of his control?

06.01.10

A new year always offers the possibility of new hope. Surely, after the worst 12 months for the media in modern history, things can only get better in...
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16.12.09

Media Analysis: Every year in newspapers is a year of crisis. It is true of what we report about the world and, increasingly in the last decade, true...
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09.12.09

Media analysis: If anyone wanted a demonstration of a media feeding frenzy, then the treatment of Tiger Woods since his car accident has been a...
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02.12.09

AT the World Congress of Newspapers in Hyderabad, India, it has been impossible to escape the sense of change.

25.11.09

There was a time, so long ago that the memory only comes back to me now in dreams, when Granada TV's regional news programmes were vital viewing. They...
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18.11.09

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...
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11.11.09

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...
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04.11.09

Media analysis: Newspaper sales are going down. Television audiences are fragmenting. But there is one branch of media that has good reason to be...
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21.10.09

Media analysis: It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain...
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14.10.09

It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence

14.10.09

It is wrong that gagging orders are so secretive that media cannot even report on their existence

07.10.09

Plan to charge for online news is raising doubts about his leadership

30.09.09

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...
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23.09.09

Imminent deal could be a major fillip after years of under-reporting of local law courts and councils

16.09.09

Media analysis: What a great wheeze it must have seemed to the Government to solve the problems of commercial TV companies and advertisers by...
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09.09.09

To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief because of its significance...
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02.09.09

The final sentence of James Murdoch’s speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival was hugely significant: “The only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor...
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29.07.09

Our commentator argues that, after his own experience in court, Sir David Eady is a threat to press freedom

22.07.09

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...
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