Roy Greenslade

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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15.07.09

The News of the World phone-hacking scandal took another giant stride forward yesterday with the evidence presented to the Commons Culture, Media and...
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08.07.09

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....
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01.07.09

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...
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17.06.09

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...
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15.06.09

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...
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10.06.09

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...
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