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Where Next for Public Service Broadcasting?

Jean Seaton and Suzanne Franks

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Sam Moghadam Khamseh

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Good quality information is a public utility: the rich and powerful will always have access to what they need to know, but poor people do not. Indeed, increasing inequalities in access to decent information underlie other more obvious inequalities. Bad information does not respect borders and yet democracy depends on informed citizens. The case for public intervention in what used to be called broadcasting, now including digital media—but which needs to be thought of as a public information space—is at a tipping point. This collection of essays sets out these vital challenges and offers some innovative solutions.

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  • Jean Seaton

    Jean Seaton

    Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at the University of Westminster. She is the Director of the Orwell Foundation and a member of Political Quarterly's editorial board.

    Articles by Jean Seaton
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    Suzanne Franks

    Suzanne Franks is Professor of Journalism at City, University of London and a former BBC TV

    journalist. She has published widely on the history and development of broadcasting.

    Articles by Suzanne Franks
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