The Media Show
Episodes
02/02/2011
02 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In the last week, the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel have each published books telling the story of their relationship with Wikileaks an...
26/01/2011
26 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
On the day the BBC World Service announces substantial job losses, Steve Hewlett talks to the Director General Mark Thompson about cuts, the licence f...
19/01/2011
19 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As more celebrities threaten to sue the News of the World over alleged phone hacking, Steve Hewlett hears about the latest developments in the case. G...
12/01/2011
12 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the fast-changing media world.As former presenter Miriam O'Reilly celebrates winning an ageism case a...
05/01/2011
05 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook starts 2011 on a high as the company has been valued at $50bn after new investment. But can Facebook be worth that much? Benjamin Cohen, Tech...
29/12/2010
29 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010 was the year when the media became the story. From coverage of politics under the coalition government to the drive to make journalism pay its wa...
22/12/2010
22 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
As revelations about Vince Cable's thoughts on Murdoch owned News Corp's bid for BSkyB come to light, Steve Hewlett looks at The Telegraph's role in r...
15/12/2010
15 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday the BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons announced the BBC's strategy review, saying that it couldn't rule out the closure of some services....
08/12/2010
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Andrew Jennings drew praise and criticism for his Panorama report on FIFA. This week, in his first broadcast interview after the programme,...
01/12/2010
01 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Grade was chairman of the BBC and then ITV and is now heading to the House of Lords. Last week, he suggested that Channel 4 should drop its ad...
24/11/2010
24 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive officer of WPP Group and one of the biggest names in advertising, talks to Steve Hewlett about Rupert Murdoch'...
17/11/2010
17 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Bradby tells Steve how he secured the interview with Prince William and Kate Middleton yesterday for ITV and whether there were any ground rules. ...
10/11/2010
10 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This week the BBC Trust, while broadly praising BBC 4, has said the channel needs to make a bigger impact on the majority of viewers who do not watch ...
03/11/2010
03 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
ITV's chairman Archie Norman has said ITV's caught up in a ratings rat race, that the demand for a mass audience "drives us to the lowest common denom...
27/10/2010
27 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Conrad Black is on bail in the USA while he appeals against his convictions for fraud and obstruction of justice. If he succeeds, he may be free to re...
20/10/2010
20 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
After the chancellor George Osborne's announcement on the funding of the BBC, Steve Hewlett asks BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons if this really i...
13/10/2010
13 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a major outbreak of collective letter writing in media land. First the one to Vince Cable about Rupert Murdoch's plan to buy the 60% of...
06/10/2010
06 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Last week the Radio Times accidentally released the names of the final twelve X Factor contestants before the programmes were broadcast, so confirming...
29/09/2010
29 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State at the DCMS, has made the encouragement of local TV a flagship policy and has now given more details of how this m...
22/09/2010
22 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
A story has leaked this morning that the BBC is to allow the National Audit Office to look at its accounts - an idea proposed by the three main partie...
15/09/2010
15 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Rupert Murdoch's plans to buy out BSkyB have been questioned this week, with the leak of a report calling for Business Secretary Vince Cable to call i...
08/09/2010
08 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Staines, aka Gudio Fawkes, is the political blogger behind the story of William Hague and his special advisor. Critics describe him as an anti-jo...
01/09/2010
01 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
When Mark Thompson spoke of "radical change" at the BBC and insisted that he was "up for the fight," in his speech at the Edinburgh TV festival, exact...