Freesat
05 Sep 2012
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Steve Hewlett interviews Emma Scott, managing director of Freesat, as the free to air satellite TV o...
Chris Blackhurst on Leveson letter
29 Aug 2012
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In today's programme with Steve Hewlett: Independent editor Chris Blackhurst's shocked reaction to a...
Photos of Prince Harry
22 Aug 2012
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In today's programme with Steve Hewlett: After the Olympics, there were calls for those less-promine...
Local TV: Birmingham's experience
15 Aug 2012
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This week with Steve Hewlett:Why does Birmingham Alabama have eight local TV stations when Birmingha...
08/08/2012
08 Aug 2012
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Have TV's Red Button and HD channels struck gold at the Olympics? Plus where are we with DAB and the...
Adam Crozier ITV
01 Aug 2012
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ITV's Chief Executive talks to Steve Hewlett about the company's latest results and what the future ...
25/07/2012
25 Jul 2012
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Will a digital first strategy mean the end for some newspapers. Lord Leveson begins writing his repo...
BBC Presenters' Tax
18 Jul 2012
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This week with Steve Hewlett: MPs have been grilling the BBC over the way it contracts its presenter...
Chris Moyles
11 Jul 2012
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In today's programme with Steve Hewlett: Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper on plans after Chris Moyles, ...
Jeremy Hunt interview
04 Jul 2012
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In today's programme with Steve Hewlett: Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, M...
BBC coverage of the Arab Spring
27 Jun 2012
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On today's programme with Steve Hewlett: How well did the BBC cover the Arab Spring? The BBC Trust c...
20/06/2012
20 Jun 2012
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On today's programme with Steve Hewlett:Why was BT prepared to pay so much for the rights to show Pr...
The risks of reporting from Syria
13 Jun 2012
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In this week's programme with Steve Hewlett: As the situation in Syria deteriorates, the BBC's Paul ...
BBC jubilee coverage, YouView, the next DG
06 Jun 2012
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At its peak the BBC attracted almost 17 million viewers for its Diamond Jubilee coverage but some ha...
Reflections on the Mirror as two editors leave; C4's Paralympics innovations
30 May 2012
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In today's programme with Steve Hewlett:The editors of the Mirror and Sunday Mirror lost their jobs ...
Eurovision's Azerbaijan controversy
23 May 2012
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On The Media Show with Steve Hewlett:The organisers of the Eurovision song contest have been critici...
Channel 4's Chief Executive David Abraham
16 May 2012
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Channel 4's chief executive David Abraham discusses the channel's ratings and revenues. Does the cha...
09/05/2012
09 May 2012
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BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch gives Steve Hewlett a rare interview on his strategy for Sky, i...
The future of BSkyB with or without Rupert Murdoch
02 May 2012
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In today's programme with Steve Hewlett:Just a day after MPs say Rupert Murdoch is not fit to run a ...
Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry
25 Apr 2012
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Steve Hewlett canvasses reaction to today's evidence from Rupert Murdoch with Ben Fenton of the Fina...
DPP Keir Starmer on public interest defence
18 Apr 2012
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Steve Hewlett questions Keir Starmer DPP on his new public interest defence guidelines. How much rea...
Guido Fawkes on Motorman
11 Apr 2012
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Paul Staines ("Guido Fawkes") has been praised and criticised for publishing the leaked Motorman fil...
James Murdoch's resignation
04 Apr 2012
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How much will BSkyB and Sky News miss James Murdoch after his resignation yesterday and what is the ...
28/03/2012
28 Mar 2012
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Almost a year after the furore over superinjunctions, there is a joint Lords and Commons report on w...
21/03/2012
21 Mar 2012
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The Controller of BBC 1, Danny Cohen speaks to Steve Hewlett about The Voice UK. As headhunters draw...
14/03/2012
14 Mar 2012
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The Voice launches on BBC1 next week, a few weeks ahead of the usual launch date of ITV's Britain's ...
07/03/2012
07 Mar 2012
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This week Dame Elizabeth Filkin's been telling the Leveson Inquiry about claims of improper relation...
29/02/2012
29 Feb 2012
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As James Murdoch steps down from News International to expand the international TV side of the busin...
22/02/2012
22 Feb 2012
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John Witherow, editor of the Sunday Times and Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News international editor, t...
The Sun, and women in the media
15 Feb 2012
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Following the arrests of more journalists at the Sun over the weekend, Geoffrey Robertson QC explain...
08/02/2012
08 Feb 2012
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When Facebook filed for an initial public offering last week, there were suggestions it could be val...
01/02/2012
01 Feb 2012
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Last week the Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, announced he's started looking for a successor...
25/01/2012
25 Jan 2012
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Last Autumn BBC management proposed a wide-ranging series of cuts which would see the Corporation's ...
18/01/2012
18 Jan 2012
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Steve Hewlett talks to James Harding, editor of The Times and Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardia...
11/01/2012
11 Jan 2012
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Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the fast-changing media world including, today, Net...
04/01/2012
04 Jan 2012
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The Daily Mail carries the Stephen Lawrence case over 21 pages today, a mark of the significance the...
The Media Show Special: Children and Television
28 Dec 2011
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The media like stories claiming to link TV with harm to children, but is the picture so clear? Focus...
21/12/2011
21 Dec 2011
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Steve discusses the changes to tabloids and the wider media since David Cameron announced the Leveso...
14/12/2011
14 Dec 2011
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Harriet Harman MP is the new shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, replacing Ivan ...
07/12/2011
07 Dec 2011
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Anne McElvoy presents the programme this week.Jonathan Miller is back from Syria, where he's been re...
The Sun, the Agent and the Paparazzo
30 Nov 2011
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With tabloid newspapers under sustained attack at the Leveson Inquiry, The Sun's managing editor Ric...
Joan Smith on giving evidence as an alleged victim
23 Nov 2011
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As the Leveson Inquiry takes evidence from alleged victims of phone hacking and other intrusions of ...
The Inquiry starts
16 Nov 2011
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The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, ethics and practices of the media has started this week, with ...
09/11/2011
09 Nov 2011
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Max Mosley has won damages in Paris from the publishers of the News of the World for invasion of pri...
Peter Salmon and the Radio Festival
02 Nov 2011
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Peter Salmon, the director of BBC North and the driving force behind the BBC's move to MediaCity, ex...
WikiLeaks and the i
26 Oct 2011
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WikiLeaks has said that it may have to close after payment companies, including Visa, Mastercard and...
The PCC and BSkyB's results
19 Oct 2011
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The Press Complaints Commission has appointed Lord Hunt as its new chairman, after Baroness Buscombe...
BBC savings strategy
12 Oct 2011
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The BBC has announced its proposals for "Delivering Quality First", a strategy to cut twenty percent...
Amanda Knox trial and sports rights
05 Oct 2011
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Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were freed from prison in Perugia on Monday, having had their con...
Chris Blackhurst and Facebook
28 Sep 2011
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Chris Blackhurst, the editor of the Independent, joins Steve Hewlett to discuss Ivan Lewis's suggest...
Sir Harold Evans and press regulation
21 Sep 2011
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Veteran newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans discusses News International's payment to the Dowler famil...
Simon Heffer and media ownership
14 Sep 2011
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Simon Heffer, the long standing associate editor of The Telegraph, has moved to the Daily Mail to ed...
Channel 5 and the Leveson Inquiry
07 Sep 2011
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Celebrity Big Brother has been a ratings smash for Channel 5, sometimes pulling in bigger audiences ...
TV's relationship with Google and WikiLeaks
31 Aug 2011
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WikiLeaks has released thousands of new diplomatic cables but the latest leak has failed to make suc...
Covering Events in Libya
24 Aug 2011
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All eyes were on Libya this week as rebels entered Tripoli and battled Colonel Gaddafi's loyalist so...
Phone Hacking and Big Brother
17 Aug 2011
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In a twist in the phone hacking story, parliament has released new evidence, including a letter from...
Reporting the Riots
10 Aug 2011
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Rioting in London and the rest of England has dominated the news this week but how well has the medi...
Libel, Contempt and the PCC
03 Aug 2011
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With the press themselves making headlines yet again - following settlements over libel allegations ...
27/07/2011
27 Jul 2011
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How's the jewel in the crown of the Murdoch empire coping following the hacking scandal ? James Hard...
The Murdochs and Phone Hacking
20 Jul 2011
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Yesterday Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks were questioned by MPs about exactly what went...
Lord Patten and Phone Hacking
13 Jul 2011
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Last week, as the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World escalated, Lord Fowler joined The M...
Special: The Demise of the News of the World
08 Jul 2011
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A special edition of The Media Show investigates the lasting impact of the end of the News of the Wo...
06/07/2011
06 Jul 2011
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The phone hacking scandal at the News of the World moved to another level this week after it emerged...
29/06/2011
29 Jun 2011
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Johann Hari, a journalist with The Independent, is under fire after admitting he lifted quotes from ...
22/06/2011
22 Jun 2011
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The chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, Andrew Miller, has warned staff that The Guardian a...
15/06/2011
15 Jun 2011
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John Myers, the head of the Radio Academy, has been taking a look at how the BBC's music radio stati...
08/06/2011
08 Jun 2011
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Channel 4 is to screen what it calls "probably the most horrific images it has ever shown" and which...
01/06/2011
01 Jun 2011
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In a recent speech to the Royal Television Society, the Chief Executive of Channel 4 set out the cha...
25/05/2011
25 May 2011
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Al Gore, the chairman of Current TV, has accused Sky Italia of refusing to renew Current TV's contra...
18/05/2011
18 May 2011
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This week Mr Justice Eady ruled that Imogen Thomas could not publish her story about her relationshi...
11/05/2011
11 May 2011
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Questions about privacy and freedom of the press have dominated the headlines this week. Twitter use...
04/05/2011
04 May 2011
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Yesterday Lord Patten took up his new role as Chairman of the BBC Trust. He has already said that BB...
27/04/2011
27 Apr 2011
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Hugh Tomlinson QC is the barrister in several of the recent high profile, yet secret, celebrity priv...
20/04/2011
20 Apr 2011
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The BBC Trust begins a service licence review into BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Live extra today. It comes...
13/04/2011
13 Apr 2011
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Last October, Danny Cohen was appointed as channel controller of BBC1, having been head of the BBC's...
06/04/2011
08 Apr 2011
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At last night's British Press Awards, the News of the World and the Guardian were both up for Scoop ...
30/03/2011
30 Mar 2011
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Last weekend, a Libyan woman, Eman al-Obeidi, broke through the security surrounding foreign journal...
24/03/2011
24 Mar 2011
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Cuts in local radio, dropping Wimbledon and Formula 1, closing down networks at night: just some of ...
16/03/2011
16 Mar 2011
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After news of the devastating earthquake in Japan broke, broadcasters were under pressure to get cor...
09/03/2011
09 Mar 2011
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Richard Peppiatt's published an open letter to Richard Desmond, saying he was quitting his job at th...
02/03/2011
02 Mar 2011
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Veteran foreign correspondent Marie Colvin secured an interview with Colonel Gaddafi this week, alon...
23/02/2011
23 Feb 2011
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Former Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer shares his thoughts on the future of BBC Trust. What does he ...
16/02/2011
16 Feb 2011
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Last month, BBC director general Mark Thompson said the arrival of YouView would "herald an intense ...
09/02/2011
09 Feb 2011
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As Question Time's editor leaves the programme owing to its move from London to Glasgow, Steve Hewle...
02/02/2011
02 Feb 2011
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In the last week, the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel have each published books telling...
26/01/2011
26 Jan 2011
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On the day the BBC World Service announces substantial job losses, Steve Hewlett talks to the Direct...
19/01/2011
19 Jan 2011
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As more celebrities threaten to sue the News of the World over alleged phone hacking, Steve Hewlett ...
12/01/2011
12 Jan 2011
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Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the fast-changing media world.As former presenter M...
05/01/2011
05 Jan 2011
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Facebook starts 2011 on a high as the company has been valued at $50bn after new investment. But can...
29/12/2010
29 Dec 2010
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2010 was the year when the media became the story. From coverage of politics under the coalition gov...
22/12/2010
22 Dec 2010
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As revelations about Vince Cable's thoughts on Murdoch owned News Corp's bid for BSkyB come to light...
15/12/2010
15 Dec 2010
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Yesterday the BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons announced the BBC's strategy review, saying that ...
08/12/2010
08 Dec 2010
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Last week, Andrew Jennings drew praise and criticism for his Panorama report on FIFA. This week, in ...
01/12/2010
01 Dec 2010
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Michael Grade was chairman of the BBC and then ITV and is now heading to the House of Lords. Last we...
24/11/2010
24 Nov 2010
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Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive officer of WPP Group and one of the biggest names in adverti...
17/11/2010
17 Nov 2010
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Tom Bradby tells Steve how he secured the interview with Prince William and Kate Middleton yesterday...
10/11/2010
10 Nov 2010
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This week the BBC Trust, while broadly praising BBC 4, has said the channel needs to make a bigger i...
03/11/2010
03 Nov 2010
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ITV's chairman Archie Norman has said ITV's caught up in a ratings rat race, that the demand for a m...
27/10/2010
27 Oct 2010
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Conrad Black is on bail in the USA while he appeals against his convictions for fraud and obstructio...
20/10/2010
20 Oct 2010
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After the chancellor George Osborne's announcement on the funding of the BBC, Steve Hewlett asks BBC...