Report
20/10/2023
Broadcasters, production companies and streamers must ensure “this industry is synonymous with talent, opportunity and inclusivity, and not the scandals of #MeToo”.
In a wide-ranging speech that brought a personal touch to the convention, Lucy Frazer, who was appointed culture secretary in February, insisted: “TV studios, production facilities...
In Depth
20/10/2023
The subject of regulation was highlighted in the second session on impartiality, which heard from the executives Angelos Frangopoulos (GB News), Deborah Turness (BBC News) and Jonathan Levy (Sky News).
GB News boss Frangopoulos was still smarting from a recent Ofcom ruling that his channel had breached the code by not including a wide range of...
In Depth
20/10/2023
When he sat down in Cambridge for a discussion about the vexed question of impartiality in television news presenters, Piers Morgan was clearly still licking his wounds from his abrupt departure in 2021 from ITV’s Good Morning Britain. He was quick off the mark, offering a “hypothetical” scenario:
“Imagine that members of the royal family get on...
In Depth
20/10/2023
As an industry and medium, television’s strength is its ability to constantly evolve – and the steady, if slow, improvement in disability representation is an important part of that.
Disability consultant and Gogglebox star Simon Minty opened the session by celebrating the progress (as well as noting points of regress), before writer and actor...
In Depth
20/10/2023
Amid the ever-changing media landscape, how can advertisers harness partnerships and consumer insights to give brands more “bang for their buck”? That was the question global branding expert and session chair Rita Clifton wanted answered, along with which factors her panellists thought “will stay the same” and “which will be totally different”....