Participation & Exclusion

Can we trust the BBC?

A post-broadcast BBC

Participation and Exclusion

Since its establishment the BBC has been accused of being an elitist organization. In recent years despite many steps forwards, in many respects the corporation is failing to represent a diversity of voices. So who is still being left out?

The BBC has lost touch: here's how it could re-connect

Sarah O'Connell 24 May 2016

A filmmaker advises BBC news staff on how to better engage with the harsh realities of life for many in Britain.

On the new British 'popular'

Nicholas Mirzoeff 8 April 2016

The fight over the BBC is also a struggle over what it means, in the UK, to be ‘popular’. In other words, who are the people?

5 ideas for hacking television

Joel Lazarus 5 February 2016

The creator of the Capital City Project lays out five principles that can be used to radically democratise television.

Towards better broadcasting in Wales

Angela Graham 18 January 2016

Public service broadcasting in Wales is on a knife-edge and there are loud demands for reform. The response will cast light on whether Wales is genuinely seen as a full partner within the UK.

What can we learn from 50 years of British-Asian TV?

Avaes Mohammad 23 December 2015

As the BBC celebrates half a decade of British Asian broadcasting, we look back at a journey of cultural integration that shines a spotlight on the present.

How did mistrust of mainstream media become a sign of violent extremism?

Julian Petley 16 December 2015

The UK Government’s Prevent strategy has led to official claims that mistrust of mainstream media and anger about government policies can be symptomatic of violent extremism.

A revolution is coming to the BBC in Scotland and the UK

Gerry Hassan 10 September 2015

Change is coming whether the BBC likes it or not. Far better to take the intiative itself: for instance, making good on a real BBC Scotland.

The BBC and Scotland: a constitutional question

David Hutchison 4 May 2015

It is not easy for the BBC to combine the need for a strong centre with genuine federalism. However fraught, this tension can be productive.

‘Counting on plurality’ means adding to the BBC

Jonathan Hardy 29 April 2015

The BBC’s charter renewal process will be influenced by whatever steps the next government takes on media ownership and plurality.

The Public and the Public Interest

Dan Hind 13 April 2015

A journalism fund, financed by levying the profits of incumbent media companies, could transform local and investigative journalism in Britain. Such a move has the support of the public.