This page records the output of the project: notes from seminars, policy submissions and papers.
Seminar notes
2013-14
- Seminar on UK media plurality policy development, 12 December 2013 [PDF]
- Seminar on charitable journalism, 9 December 2013 [PDF]
- Seminar on European media plurality policy development, 31 January 2014 [PDF]
- Seminar on media plurality policy development in Scotland, 4 March 2014 [PDF]
- Seminar on media plurality policy development in Wales, 2 April 2014 [PDF]
- Resources and commentary from Media Power and Plurality 2014 conference, 2 May [follow link]
- Seminar on charitable initiatives for Journalism, 23 June 2014 [PDF]
2012 (part of an earlier AHRC funded project led by Steven Barnett)
- Measuring media plurality seminar held at Ofcom on 1 March 2012: Part 1 [PDF] / Part 2 [PDF]
- Measuring media plurality seminar held at Ofcom on 15 March 2012: Part 1 [PDF] / Part 2 [PDF]
Policy submissions
By Professor Steven Barnett
- Written and oral evidence to the House of Lords communications select committee inquiry on media plurality, May 2013 [pp 44-68, PDF]
- Written evidence to the DCMS consultation on media plurality, July 2013
- Written evidence to the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee inquiry on the future of the BBC [PDF], December 2013 / Oral evidence, 1 April 2014
Jointly written
- Letter to the House of Lords communications select committee following project seminar, December 2013
Papers
- Paper in Journalism Practice: Plurality, Policy and the Local – published online 9 September 2014 – by Steven Barnett and Judith Townend
- Paper in The Political Quarterly: ‘And What Good Came of it at Last?’ Press–Politician Relations Post-Leveson, Vol. 85, No. 2, April–June 2014 – by Steven Barnett and Judith Townend
- The State of UK Hyperlocal Community News: Findings from a survey of practitioners, by Andrew Williams, Steven Barnett, Dave Harte and Judith Townend, July 2014
- Can charity save the local press? British Journalism Review 2014: 25: 62 – by Steven Barnett and Roy Greenslade
- Draft paper on hyperlocal media plurality, with preliminary research results, presented at Meccsa conference, 8 January 2014 [PDF]; final version under review for publication
- Draft paper on the realpolitik of media policymaking, presented at Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2014, 15 April 2014 [PDF]; final version under review for publication