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Has Jeremy Hunt defined “sufficient plurality” in the UK news market?


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Thanks to frantic politicking in the House of Lords, the 2003 Communications Act endorsed, but didn’t quantify, the idea of a “sufficient plurality” among news organisations in the UK. In the wake of the deal to spin off Sky News from News Corporation last week, have we now got a definition? In part, perhaps. Last [...]

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News + Shine: Family deal, global logic


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It’s a bit like watching a martial arts sensei at work. In a choreographed move, Rupert Murdoch buys his daughter’s TV production company for £415m on behalf of the publicly-quoted company he chairs. Result? Barely anyone bats an eyelid. Most of medialand took the opportunity to wallow — yet again — in the complexities of [...]

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News Corp & Sky: Pluralism is a game without rules


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What happens when you put Barcelona’s strongest team up against a mob of 13th century yokels who play the beautiful game in a frenzy, kicking an inflated pig’s bladder from one end of the village to another? The only possible result is a mess. Coincidentally, this word precisely describes the government’s “quasi-judicial” examination of News [...]

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YouView and on-demand TV: the battle behind the screens


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Have Sky and Virgin Media got what they wanted? On 22 October, Sky quietly launched Sky Anytime+, a video-on-demand service that required a vastly expensive rewrite of its set-top box software. “It’s a big job to get right but we think we’ve cracked it,” said Mike Darcey, Sky’s chief operating officer, adding that the service’s [...]

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Why TV will outlive newspapers


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In one vision of the future, the question is not if, but when, content gets revolutionised. Viewed from this perspective, the contemporary history of Big Media is a sequence of car crashes involving first the music business, then newspapers, followed by the book industry, Hollywood, magazines and television. But what if technology affects content not [...]

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Is Richard Desmond a fit and proper owner of Channel Five?


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Ofcom thinks that Richard Desmond is a fit and proper owner of Channel Five. Others don’t. In a stinging attack in the Guardian, for example, Desmond’s biographer Tom Bower expresses amazement that he has passed the regulator’s “quality threshold”. Fit and proper: like the other verbal doublets that infest English legalese, the expression dates back [...]

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From samizdat to Twitter


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To understand what the web has done for free speech, it’s necessary to think about how Natalya Gorbanevskaya and her fellow dissidents produced 65 issues of the samizdat publication Chronicle Of Current Events in the Soviet Union between 1968 and 1983. The Soviet state controlled access to printing presses and photocopiers. So when it was [...]

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Adding up the cost of the downturn

After an ‘unprecedented’ collapse in advertising revenues and severe job cuts, how have commercial broadcasters survived the recession? Peter Kirwan asks if they are ready for the challenges aheadIn his debut Channel 4 results presentation last week, c…

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Is Big Media the real election loser?


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Judged by its own high standards, The Sun had a poor election. Yes, we got the UK Debt Clock, The Dossier That Shames Labour and the argument that readers should vote Tory in order to save Page 3. On the eve of polling day, however, the Sun invited Simon Cowell to share his vision for a [...]

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How should media do technology?


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Heard the one about Sky launching an own-brand touchscreen tablet? If you can take any more rumour-mongering during the week in which the world’s technology journalists converged on CES, the scuttlebutt I’m hearing is that Sky is “very interested” in bringing to market a “fourth screen” device that offers browsing, video conferencing, e-reading and – [...]

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