17/10/2022
Was the life of Elvis Presley the stuff of Shakespearean tragedy? Most emphatically it was, according to Baz Luhrmann, whose biopic Elvis this summer became the director’s biggest grossing UK film. It features Austin Butler as the singer and Tom Hanks as his manipulative manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Luhrmann, clad as if he had just walked off a...
17/10/2022
The work that we do… is really expensive, resource-heavy and time-heavy. Maybe we can pull together a really big investigation every two months, but we see the impact and the audiences – that’s what keeps CNN and other [news] organisations… investing in investigative work.”
Nima Elbagir, CNN’s chief international investigative correspondent, was...
17/10/2022
Session chair Amol Rajan: Did you interpret the new culture secretary saying that she is re-examining the business case for privatisation as implying that she and Prime Minister Liz Truss are not as committed to privatisation as their predecessors?
Alex Mahon: We’re in discussion with the DCMS about where they want to end up and what the options...
17/10/2022
Broadcasters no longer battle just each other in the bid for growth. With expanding options in leisure and home entertainment, and consumers reeling from the cost of living crisis, the competition has broadened. Now, it includes other leisure pursuits as much as traditional rivals.
This battle for consumer attention was the focus of the second...
17/10/2022
Explaining the “metaverse” to an audience of largely non-techie media folk was a tough ask, but the chair of this session, BBC News technology correspondent Marc Cieslak, came up with a novel approach.
Cieslak was on stage in person and also on the large screen behind him as a 3D avatar, “a trimmer, younger looking virtual version” of the...