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The Rise and Fall of the Public Service Publisher

email   discuss Des Freedman, Department of Media and Communications and Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London

This briefing examines the rise and fall of a proposal for a Public Service Publisher (PSP) in the U.K.— a new organization that would have commissioned independent public media content across a range of participatory digital platforms. This central policy debate in one of the largest and most influential public broadcasting systems in the world provides useful parallels for U.S. policy and public media makers. They too face the rise of Web 2.0 models, questions about how copyright restrictions should apply to public content, the shift to digital broadcasting, and the widespread commercialization of the media sector.

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