The Future of Public Service Broadcasting, 10 June 2010, City University London
-A +AA symposium organised by openDemocracy and hosted by City University's Department of Journalism
You are invited to participate in an all-day symposium chaired by Steve Hewlett, presenter of Radio
4's The Media Show, and hosted by City University's Department of Journalism. The symposium embraces the current consultation on the BBC's Strategy Review in asking a broader question: what is the future for pluralism in the supply of public service content in the UK?
The symposium is divided into three sessions:
1) the role of the licence-funded BBC and the significance of the Strategy Review
2) how to identify, supply and fund the PSB needs the BBC cannot fulfil
3) the public service media content that merits support and how this can be funded in the digital
future
Confirmed panellists include Helen Shaw, Tim Gardam, Claire Enders, Peter Phillips, Mark Oliver,
Tony Curzon Price, Richard Collins and David Elstein.
The symposium is the physical culmination of the online Public Service Broadcasting Forum, an
editorial series and online discussion board. Launched on 29 March by Frank Field MP on the
openDemocracy website, the Forum aims to debate the status, health and future of public service
broadcasting in parallel with the public consultation period of Putting Quality First, the BBC's
formal Strategy Review.
The PSB Forum has already published dozens of posts --speeches, documents, opinions, research
papers, proposals and comments -- dealing with current broadcasting matters, all of which are freely
available HERE. It is open to all quality contributions and we hope participants will engage in this online discussion in the run-up to the symposium. Contributions to the Forum will be summarised for participants in the symposium in their email pack ahead of the event.
Reservations can be made at http://psbf.eventbrite.com. An attendance fee of £25 will cover morning
and afternoon coffee and a sandwich lunch. There are a small number of student tickets available for £15. The event takes place at:
College Building, City University, City Road, London EC1V 0HB.
Whether or not you can participate in person, you are welcome to contribute online with short
articles, comments or papers for publication on the website.
Contributions and queries should be sent to the Forum's moderator, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal at:
daniel.macarthur-seal@opendemocracy.net
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