New kid on the block
It is difficult to overstate the importance of BBC Radio Cymru to Welsh speakers. Forty years after its launch, it remains the most popular radio station of all among fluent speakers with its...
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Journalists and Belief – A New Normal
The BBC’s Review of its Religion and Ethics output and programme-making practice has important immediate and long-term implications. The most intriguing effect of the Review will be the change to media...
View ArticleThe Future of Welsh Language Content
Last month the independent review on the future of S4C, authored by Euryn Ogwen Williams, was published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The full report and its recommendations...
View ArticleA Future for Public Service Television in Wales
A Future for Public Service Television (Des Freedman and Vana Goblot, (eds), A Future for Public Service Television (London, Goldsmiths Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1-906897-0) stems from the work of an...
View ArticleDatganoli darlledu: hanfodol er mwyn cynnal ein democratiaeth – Devolution of...
Ers faint o flynyddoedd mae cymdeithas sifig yng Nghymru wedi bod yn codi pryderon am gyflwr y cyfryngau yng Nghymru? Mae hi fel tôn gron. Dros y misoedd diwethaf yn unig, mae yna restr faith o...
View ArticleRadio and Regulation in Wales
Whilst there were few surprises in the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee’s report into Welsh radio, the inquiry under the leadership of Plaid Cymru’s Bethan Sayed AM has been much...
View ArticleBBC News Online: reflecting the Welsh agenda
Next month, at the flick of a switch, the BBC will introduce a far-reaching change to its online news service in Wales. For the first time, the BBC’s main news homepage will deliver a tailor-made...
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A ‘social’ democracy: How Spotify, Facebook and co could help get Wales to...
The democratic deficit has long been a hot topic for Welsh politicos. And for good reason. 20 years since the birth of devolution, and awareness of Welsh politics is lamentable. The fact that education...
View ArticleWelsh democracy suffers as broadcasting powers remain in London
Later tonight, leaders and representatives of seven political parties will be in the Senedd to take part in BBC One’s televised general election debate. This will be the first time ever that such a...
View ArticleCan Wales lead the world in ‘safe’ social media?
Social media has energised the way in which we interact, communicate, promote and understand. As with any tool, it has the ability to be used for good, or for ill. I don’t intend here to detail the...
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