A recent interview shows the BBC chairman Richard Sharp believes in the importance of the BBC and the licence fee, but where is the actual evidence for claiming it has a ‘liberal bias’?
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The tech giants could belatedly be persuaded to take their responsibilities as publishers seriously, but only if there are laws backed up by large enough fines.
The media’s difficulty with reporting Brexit has reached a tipping point as the evidence of the damage done continues to accumulate.
Michelle Donelan’s appearance at Society of Editors’ first Media Freedom Awards revealed some choice hints as to how the Government’s relationship with newsbrands and broadcasters could change.
The broadcast media are making a much better fist overall of the coverage of COP27 and climate change than the news brands.
The big question for Twitter is what sort of content will Elon Musk permit or promote on what increasingly looks like a personal plaything?
It matters who owns TikTok, especially as more young people use it for news. But if we’re worried about governments’ influence on media owners, look no further than the state of several UK newsbrands.
The press is full of Conservative leadership stories as the UK faces political and economic turmoil. But Brexit remains the root problem and the pressure will only increase.
As part of our series on the big issues facing the media in 2023, Raymond Snoddy makes the case for developing a more comprehensive idea of trust to combat misinformation.
We’ve become so used to the standard political interview, but a series of ‘car crash’ local radio interviews was followed by much sterner tests for Liz Truss on national broadcasts.