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The phone-hacking scandals indicate that industry self regulation has failed...
Reports emerged yesterday that the News of the World allegedly hired a private investigator to hack into the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler back in 2002. Damian Tambini argues that such...
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The internet never forgets: government measures to protect privacy are...
The recent furore over the unmasking of holders of super-injunctions via Twitter has led some to claim that in the social media age, clamping down on privacy by governments will fail. Dr Paul Reilly...
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The US experience suggests that the government’s plans for local TV are...
One of the biggest differences between the US and UK media is the lack of local commercial TV stations in the UK’s urban areas. While Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is very keen to adopt the US model...
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The government’s plans for local TV puts too much of an onus on these...
The government ‘s Framework for local TV aims to support local stations by buying their content to syndicate nationally. But, in the second of three articles, Sally Broughton Micova, finds that a lack...
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New proposals for local TV may mean that new stations will be ill-equipped to...
Sally Broughton Micova looks at the most recent proposals aimed at establishing local TV broadcasters, and finds that the revised plans may lead to local stations that struggle to maintain their own...
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2012 may bring a reversal by the government on the deregulation of the UK’s...
At the close of 2011, British Politics and Policy at LSE asked our contributors for their thoughts and predictions for 2012. Looking ahead, Sally Broughton Micova finds that while traditionally...
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If Hunt does not go the consequences for government will be catastrophic...
Patrick Dunleavy argues that Jeremy Hunt has run roughshod over the Ministerial Code in his dealings with the Murdochs over the Sky bid, and if Cameron won’t pull the trigger there may be severe...
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The art of the impossible: Cameron and the reshuffle
Charlie Beckett discusses the recent cabinet reshuffle and how, in his view, Cameron’s ‘tepid tweak’ will predictably yield the same old politics. The current (re)shuffle is a great example of the...
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