Director’s Blog

That's Alternative

How do you define Alternative Media in an age when the Internet provides so many alternatives? Hyper-local blog expert Will Perrin came to Polis Summer School to join in a day of debate on that subject. This was the response from Summer School student Fatymatou Dia:

Since the beginning of the course, I have been struggling with definitions  for journalism in the digital age: What is media? What is new media? What is alternative media? What is journalism in the first place? (more…)

Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative’s shadow media secretary has stepped in to the row between the BBC and local newspapers. The BBC wants to increase its online local coverage but the local papers see that as a threat. They are already under pressure with collapsing advertising revenue and they fear that a more local BBC service will take eyeballs away from their own online offering. (more…)