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Our new analysis confirms a 42% reduction in the BBC's public income since 2010 & over 1,000 hours of programming scrapped. We are concerned that under such financial pressure the BBC is being forced to increase its commercial income by selling its programmes to other countries so it can plug the financial gap & more likely to focus on commissioning content which is more commercially attractive to the international market. This risks undermining the BBC’s delivery of UK-specific public service content which benefits British society & is why the BBC exists. Read the full report here https://lnkd.in/e3rvcwkt

📺 Today marks a milestone for media policy in the European Union as the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) enters into force. Excited to share the Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe - ACT practitioner's guide put together by my fantastic colleagues Erard Gilles and Sebastiano Bertagni. It offers an overview of key provisions and practical compliance measures to help media companies and stakeholders navigate this important Regulation effectively. 📝✅ #EMFA #EURegulation #Television #Newsroom #Journalism #Sustainability #Pluralism Go get your copy at the following link: https://lnkd.in/eja-CtrK

Congratulations to Ofcom for writing this report on the situation of local media in the UK! And for mentioning our study- where some common trends can be identified with the rest of Europe, such as the key role of the public service BBC and its local services. 👋 Read more in our Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) study- "Uncovering news deserts in Europe" https://t.ly/cNgCA

Under pressure! Learn from NBC News, NBCU Local and Noticias Telemundo Communications experts how to write news under tight deadlines. Watch our latest video: https://lnkd.in/eB4yvzr2

How to Choose a Topic? Lifestyle, Culture, News & Information? The list doesn't end here. We will cover more topics in the upcoming content. A radio broadcaster must choose the subject he/she is passionate about. Read More: https://lnkd.in/e7WmNSnK

The 20-somethings who changed the face of broadcasting in Britain - that you likely don't know. Each generation something monumental happens in the media to break old habits. Social Media, Multimedia, in the 60s cinema verite, and in the 1950s the birth of broadcast TV. But in the 90s with the onset of Cable, something radical happened. Can you guess? In what was Channel 4's former offices, just off Soho, thirty 20-somethings, backed by some of the most innovative journalists from the UK and US (Rosenblum) entered a 3 month training programme to disrupt the UK's media. The idea was bold, and audacious, and had never been executed to scale. Would it work? Because if it did other broadcasters e.g. BBC, ITV, CNN had no choice but to follow. If it didn't work it would be £50 million down the toilet. The idea was the journalists would research, produce, shoot, interview, direct and some edit their own stories. A team of editors and producers ensured the process could work. If you're rolling on the floor bellyache laughing, you're entitled to. It's so common place now. Yet in the 90s it was unheard off, both as a culture and the official word of unions. Today the equivalent would be a 20-something taking over the editor's chair of any of the broadcast news companies e.g. BBC News. It's been thirty years since that experiment, one that did change the media as we know it. That's why today one person can be tasked with doing all without criticism that shooting pictures meant you couldn't focus on interviews. Yep and and many other excuses. Thirty years on since the group assembled, a reunion is planned. Somewhat older, and perhaps wiser, what's the message for today. I incorporated a study of the group into a wider social-philosophical narrative of communications. This week I'll post some stories of the group, but here's some thought on the obvious. In that line-up you see, diversity representation is writ large. Remember this is 1994. This was Channel One and the dawn of videojournalism. See you during the week. #history #media #celebrations #video

BBC Verify. Isn't this just 'journalism'? What are all the other stories, if not verified? Or shouldn't the 'verification' be baked into the actual story itself? I'm sort of half joking. We live in a world where the BBC has been overtaken by 'the news'. They're not reporting the news, but reporting on what has become news. They're not setting the agenda, curating the news and creating the news like they used to, they're reporting on existing news that's out in the world and having to verify whether it's true/correct. Sorry, I must dash, I have an incoming call from Eric A. Blair... I realise that the BBC has become a divisive institution of late, but I applaud them for working to surface objective truth and verified facts. In a time of state-run media monopolies and private interests influencing media, the BBC remains one of the most reliable sources of news. #news #content

More BBC World Service cuts "Despite the UK government providing an uplift in the grant-in-aid funding for the World Service, the BBC says that previous freezes on the licence fee, global inflation, and the need for ongoing digital and technological upkeep have meant cuts are necessary....In total, the savings needed for the next financial year are around £6 million (€7.1m) and will largely be met by the closure of posts with a net reduction of around 130 roles." Another sad story of BBC cuts, there have been years and years of cuts that have taken a huge toll on the BBC as a whole, not just the World Service. It affects the amount of content the BBC can put out, and the context of news the extent it can cover all the news, making sacrifices locally and globally. It was particularly disturbing to see jobs at Media Monitoring are on the line. With everything going on with #fakenews and #disinformation and #misinformation with #socialmedia companies abandoning #factchecking, to see the BBC reduce its focus on media monitoring, tracking and analysing global media to make sense of it is really sad and really comes at the worst possible time. News organisations and #newsmedia are looking at many ways to make or save money, and it again emphasizes that news has to be paid for by someone to continue to put out quality content. #bbc #news #bbcworldservice #onlinenews #worldnews #mediaindustry #digitalmedia

So insightful. The power and potentially life-saving value of traditional media and local TV.

𝑪𝑩𝑺 𝑺𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝑼𝒑 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔: 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒉 𝑶’𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝑶𝒖𝒕, 𝑪𝒐-𝑨𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝑰𝒏 CBS has decided to swap out its flagship “Evening News” host Norah O’Donnell for a dynamic co-anchor team, likely reasoning, “If it’s broke, break it harder.” O’Donnell’s heartfelt farewell was capped off with a surprise cameo from Oprah and a retrospective reel, reminding viewers of what stability looked like before CBS threw the format into a blender. The network’s new strategy is to emulate local news vibes—because nothing says national relevance like weather updates from Lonnie Quinn. John Dickerson, Maurice DuBois, and Margaret Brennan will tag-team the revamped show, while reporters in the field pick up the slack. As CBS tightens its budget belts under corporate pressure, the audience will likely wonder: “Who needs Walter Cronkite when you have a newsroom held together with duct tape and pharmaceutical ads?” Critics are skeptical. Will viewers embrace this group project, or just tune out and binge Netflix? CBS is betting on the former, but let’s hope their new co-anchor chemistry doesn’t resemble a chaotic PTA meeting. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒕𝑮𝑷𝑻, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒉 𝑶’𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. https://lnkd.in/gH99fir6