MRC submission to ‘Future of Public Service Broadcasting’ inquiry

June 17, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

Immediately after the outbreak of the pandemic, the Culture Select Committee launched an inquiry into the funding, regulation and remit of public service broadcasting. Given recent attacks on the BBC in particular by senior members of the government, including the prime minister, MRC believes it is vital both to defend the principle of public media but also to emphasise, once … [Read more...]

Public interest solutions to data abuses

January 2, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

by Angela Phillips and Eleonora Mazzoli This is the first of our posts for 2020 in which Prof Angela Phillips and Eleonora Mazzoli reflect on some potential solutions - including constraints on micro targeting and the development of a public service search engine - to abuses of individual users' data. It was originally published on the Media@LSE blog and is reproduced with … [Read more...]

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