Clik here to view.
Connecting Wales
Since the last media audit took place in 2008, the availability and take-up of internet and broadband in Wales has changed drastically. IWA Wales Media Audit Monday: Read Lee Waters’ introduction to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The state of journalism – decline or metamorphosis?
There is no doubt that the world of print and online is going through a period of rapid change. Since the last IWA Media audit in 2008 the circulation of the Western Mail has fallen by 53%; it now...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The media that Wales deserves?
Throughout the past week we have been publishing our draft analysis of the state of main media sectors in Wales. In the spirit of the ‘crowdsourcing’ approach that we have adopted in several of our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The press and online journalism in Wales: problems and possibilities.
The IWA media audit covers a great deal of ground. One area, well trodden before, is the position of the newsprint industry in Wales. In 1966 the total circulation of morning, evening, weekly and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is the BBC Trust getting the message from Wales?
The BBC Trust held a seminar in Cardiff ‘as part of the Charter review process’ on 20th October. It was open to the public but the majority of those present were media workers, academics or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Welsh media in both our languages
Read through the draft Conclusions and Policy Recommendations of the latest Media Audit, and the word jumps out at you immediately: Depressing. The story of Welsh media between 2008 and 2015 is one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An end to the centre-periphery game?
David Anderson , Director General of Amgueddfa Cymru takes the BBC to task for its poor coverage of arts and culture in Wales. In a hard-hitting article in the latest edition of the IWA’s ‘The Welsh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Few successes for English language TV in Wales
Let’s start on a positive. The IWA’s 2015 Wales Media Audit should be welcomed as a detailed, systematic and often thought-provoking document. Given the importance of the media in Wales as providers of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Big potential for radio in Wales
We are grateful to the IWA for giving us the opportunity to appraise this very timely document, one that provides an accurate overview of the Welsh radio industry at the current moment in time. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Media Coverage of Wales is Shrinking
Just as extra powers are flowing to the National Assembly, the people of Wales are becoming harder to see and hear on the media. The Wales Media Audit, has been carried out by a group of media experts...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BBC Wales told to expect more cuts.
The BBC needs to find ‘creative’ solutions to the twin challenges of declining income and justified demands for better coverage of Wales on the network, BBC Director of Strategy told the IWA’s Cardiff...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Should Welsh Government intervene in news coverage decline?
The IWA’s 2015 Media Audit, published at the Cardiff Media Summit last week, offers an embarrassment of riches for the analyst, the commentator and the policy-maker. Running to over 140 pages, it is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Only the BBC…
It is a pleasure to be here this evening. One of my first trips in my very first week as Director-General was here to Cardiff to visit BBC Wales and the Roath Lock studios. That week, of course, goes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BBC: Wales to Wales? Or Wales to the UK?
“This is the story I want to focus on this evening.” said Tony Hall, Director General of the BBC in a speech given to Cardiff Business Club. “The BBC as a home for distinctive quality and creativity,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘A culture speaking to itself’? The IWA Media Audit and the Welsh Periodicals.
When Stefan Collini spoke of the British periodical tradition as ‘the noise of a culture speaking to itself’ it was a positive comment. He was writing in the context of his discussion of the way...
View ArticleClik here to view.
BBC governance must catch up with devolution
Since Rona Fairhead, Chair of the BBC Trust, a year ago, effectively killed off the body that she chairs by calling for it to be abolished, many have been wondering how the BBC should be governed and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Welsh Broadcasting’s Hidden Report Comes to Light
The Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee is to be congratulated on having elicited from the Welsh Government ‘Details of the work of, and output from, the Welsh Government’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wales has to be at the BBC’s top table
As Parliamentary and Senedd committees deliberate at either end of the M4 on the future of the BBC, one senses a gathering momentum. It would be more comforting if one could also see a growing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where are we now? Progress report on the BBC Charter Review
We are likely to have to wait until May for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in London to come up with its White Paper on the future of the BBC, following its public consultation on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
British media is failing to give voters the full picture ahead of elections
When you tune in to the latest UK political news, it is often dominated by the Westminster bubble. This is not a problem as such, but with elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to take...
View Article