This article first appeared in Wales Arts Review.
Category Archives: Commentator
Ivory Power – Academic Research and Media Policy in Wales
This post first appeared on the blogsite of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, 21st March 2017.
BBC licence fee raid ̶̶ The consequences for Wales
This blog appeared on 10th July 2015 on the IWA’s clickonwales blog site.
For the second time in five years Government Ministers have backed the BBC into a corner, issued a ‘money or your life’ threat, walked away with a big chunk of the licence fee and left a Director General making as good a public fist of defending ‘the deal’ as he can. Has this been a fair trade between a willing buyer and a willing seller? Continue reading BBC licence fee raid ̶̶ The consequences for Wales
Passion and Policy – Documentary in Wales
On Friday 29th May Documentary Wales/ Dogfen Cymru is holding a symposium in Cardiff:
to discuss the future of documentary film in Wales. Drawing together a range of talent from Wales and beyond, the day will be an opportunity to meet a diverse collection of individuals who share your passion for documentary. The focus of the day will be on:
- Strengthening the community of documentary film makers currently working in Wales
- Exploring ways of building the audience for documentary film in Wales
- Discussing future plans for supporting documentary film within the Welsh production sector
Without good policy no social endeavour flourishes as it might. Structures start from policy. Policies are not made by machines but by people and people have beliefs and values and prejudices, all of which can be discussed, debated and shaped into principles on which actions are based. Those actions influence both what is possible in the social sphere and what becomes impossible.
To make Wales a place in which documentary flourishes we need policies which build sound platforms for documentary. That means taking an interest in policy for broadcasting, digital media and cinema – at least. Continue reading Passion and Policy – Documentary in Wales
Crabb Deal on Broadcasting in Wales is not secure yet
See IWA Click on Wales blog page 9th March
Crabb Deal on Broadcasting in Wales is not secure yet
When Stephen Crabb, the Secretary of State for Wales, stood up on 27 February to proclaim a (fragile) cross-party consensus on further powers for Wales, he did so only hours after Ofcom, the media regulator, had closed its consultation on the future of public service broadcasting. Ofcom’s review and the Crabb ‘consensus’ represent potentially important milestones for broadcasting in Wales.
What the premature St. David’s Day agreement (a Sunday announcement was never on the cards) had to say about broadcasting, unsurprisingly, made no headlines, but it laid down an important marker for the coming debate on the BBC’s Charter and for the need to deepen Welsh involvement in media policy. There is a huge amount at stake both for viewers and for our television production industry.
Apparently, all four parties are now agreed on proposals that the IWA has supported and promoted for some years past in various publications, and in the evidence that it submitted to the Silk Commission by the UK’s Changing Union project in which it has been an active partner. It did so again last week in its response to Ofcom’s consultation document.
Mr. Crabb’s Command Paper says there was consensus around the following Silk Commission proposals: Continue reading Crabb Deal on Broadcasting in Wales is not secure yet
Cardiff Media Summit
Ruth McElroy
Angela Graham
Glyn Mathias
Rhodri Talfan Davies
The Cardiff Media Summit 3rd December 2014
Panel on the Democratic Deficit in Welsh Media
Ken Skates’s Keynote Speech ‘Finding Wales’s Voice in the Broadcasting Debate’
Rhodri Talfan Davies ‘The Challenge of Reaching Wales’s Citizens’
‘Is the Production of BBC Drama in Cardiff Under Threat?’
At the conclusion of the summit an invitation was issued to anyone keen to contribute to the debate on broadcasting in Wales to attend a meeting at the offices of Ofcom, 2 Caspian Point, Cardiff at 9.30am on 15th January.
The Writers’ Guild
Executive Committee Member, Wales
Organiser, The Media and Devolution – what do we need to know?
18th September 2013 Chapter Arts Centre
The Pros and Cons of Devolving Control of the Media to Wales – Speaker: Aled Eirug.
A Guild Members Only event.
Facilitator of the submission from the Guild in Wales to the Commission on Devolution in Wales (Silk) September 2013
Union Learning Adviser for The Writers’ Guild 2009 – 2014
Identifying and responding to members’ training and development needs. ULA information
Institute of Welsh Affairs Posts
Commentator: The Institute of Welsh Affairs: News Analysis Online Magazine
Science on TV in Wales…. When did you last see?
What Tony said – What Wales replied
Welsh Visibility in the Digital World
Devolution of Broadcasting to the National Assembly
Welsh Government Response to Future of the Media Report
Innovative Funding of Documentary Film Research
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and TV
The Story of Wales – the history of History on TV in Wales
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and TV
Angela Graham reports on some new approaches that are connecting broadcasting with academia.
Planet: Television Tells The Story of Wales
The story of Wales: History through television.
Article for Planet Magazine, No. 208, Nov 2012.
Angela Graham, Development Producer on the BBC Cymru Wales series, The Story of Wales, considers the role of narrative in the television history of a nation and the relationship between broadcasting and academia.