By Des Freedman Right in the middle of the summer, and without much fanfare, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published two documents that reveal its plans for the media and communication sectors. Perhaps it thought that no one would notice. The first is a ‘strategy document’, Connectivity, Content and Consumers, effectively a white paper on digital … [Read more...]
Professor James Curran: “We want to shrink the media moguls”
This post was originally written by Joe Sandler Clarke at the Huffington Post, and is reprinted with their kind permission. Two more Sun journalists were charged by police last month. Jamie Pyatt, a reporter, and John Edwards, the tabloid's pictures editor, were charged with allegedly making payments in excess of £30,000 to public officials. They face trial on July … [Read more...]
Report from the Lords select committee on plurality, 25 June
As MPs call on Lord Justice Leveson to comment on the shameful stalemate that has prevailed over press regulation since the agreement of the Royal Charter in March, the House of Lords select committee on communications is quietly and seriously examining the question of what to do about media ownership. We observed the committee on 25 June as it heard evidence from three … [Read more...]