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The best media in the world?
Together with my near-namesake, Rasmus Helles, I’ve written an op-ed in Berlingske on media trends and media policy in Denmark, arguing we need to support not only content production and diverse...
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Do the British (still) care about phone hacking?
The Leveson Inquiry into the “culture, practice, and ethics of the press” and motivated by the phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the UK media world in general and News International in particular...
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Alternative onwership structures and support for news in New York
Making a dash across the Atlantic over the weekend for an event on alternative ownership structures and support for news hosted by the Oxford Alumni Association of New York on Monday. Robert G. Picard...
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Public support for the media–past, present, future?
Off to Edinburgh to give a talk about public sector support for the media at “New media, old values? Media freedom and independence in the era of convergence”, a workshop hosted by the SCRIPT Centre...
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Genachowski did little to help journalism—will the next FCC chair act...
On March 22, the Federal Communication Commission Chairman, Julius Genachowski, confirmed that he is stepping down. Much of the discussion of Genachowski’s legacy has focused on what the FCC did and...
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Frozen media policies during a time of media change—new paper out
This year, we mark the twentieth anniverary after the Mosaic browser and affordable dial-up connections began to make the internet accessible for ordinary people, disrupting almost every aspect of the...
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Following up on the Oxford Media Convention 2014
The Oxford Media Convention 2014 was great. Interesting keynotes, panels, and discussions, very well organized by Damian Tambini and co. Superb tweeting from Emma Goodman and the LSE Media Policy...
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Predictions for journalism in 2015–politicized digital intermediaries
The good folks at the NiemanLab at Harvard have asked a bunch of people to offer their predictions of something that will matter for journalism in 2015. I wrote my piece about the increasing...
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New report for the Council of Europe
The Reuters Institute has just published a report that Alessio Cornia, Antonis Kalogeropoulos and I wrote for the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Media and Information Society reviewing...
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Open societies and robust institutions – talking points on how we can fight...
Thursday February 22, I gave evidence at a hearing on “preserving democracy in the digital age” organized by the European Political Strategy Centre (the European Commission’s in-house think tank) in...
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