Papers by Peter Lee-Wright
A 2010 paper written on the imaging of poverty and the problems both journalists and NGOs have of... more A 2010 paper written on the imaging of poverty and the problems both journalists and NGOs have off making an impact without reinforcing the hierarchical, disempowering images of suffering. Still relevant
Journal of International Scientific Publications: Media and Mass Communication, Volume 2, 2013
The BBC is the world's foremost public service broadcaster and its largest programme producer. Pr... more The BBC is the world's foremost public service broadcaster and its largest programme producer. Privateers control much of Britain's public services and are determined to privatize the most commercial aspects of the BBC. This research evaluates the BBC and questions leading industry figures what this means for public service broadcasting.
JOMEC Journal Issue 3, Jun 2013
JOMEC Journal, Issue 1, Jun 12, 2012
Academia to zingerKeywords in News and Journalism Studies, by Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan
British Journalism Review, 2011
Peter Lee-Wright on Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan's Keywords in News and Journalism Studie... more Peter Lee-Wright on Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan's Keywords in News and Journalism Studies; and Daniel Synge's The Survival Guide to Journalism.
Virtual News: BBC News at a `Future Media and Technology' Crossroads
Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 2008
This article assesses the strategies of BBC News as it repositions itself for the digital future,... more This article assesses the strategies of BBC News as it repositions itself for the digital future, explores how impartiality is being redefined, evaluates the impact of technology-led strategies on newsgathering and notes the tensions between rival forces inside the BBC. The corporation is engaged in an internal upheaval of seismic proportions, as technological change accelerates and the largest ever round
Conference Presentations by Peter Lee-Wright
CPU was the Community Programme Unit, a small department in BBC Television dedicated to giving ai... more CPU was the Community Programme Unit, a small department in BBC Television dedicated to giving airtime to those whose views and experience were ignored or misrepresented elsewhere in the media. Peter Lee-Wright was a producer there from 1980-1993
“Everywhere I go, the BBC is the envy of the world, until I return here and we discuss what’s to ... more “Everywhere I go, the BBC is the envy of the world, until I return here and we discuss what’s to be done about the BBC”, says ex-Director-General Greg Dyke. This paper draws on a research project exploring the public valuation of the BBC, finding its true estimation poorly reflected in other UK media, and in important ways by the BBC itself. Drawing not just on interviews with leading figures from across the creative industries, but a wide spectrum of those whose work is inextricably linked to and reflected by the public broadcaster, from politicians and public servants to scientists and sportsmen, the study reveals that they take the BBC for granted and imagine it as inviolable as they thought the NHS. The paper questions these assumptions and goes on to critically interrogate the political economic context in which they have become established,
Dealing with a licence free freeze, ongoing cuts and commercial intentions, the BBC is committed to “Delivering Quality First”, a gnomic phrase requiring unpicking. The BBC Trust subjects its services to a ‘Public Value Test’, where they must “outweigh any potentially damaging impact on the market”. This emphasis on market ideology, which has seized the public sphere largely unchallenged, is neither supported by economic fact nor the greater part of the BBC’s audience, who must pay three times the licence fee for the most limited BSkyB entertainment package. 97% of the UK adult audience in 2011 still consumed at least 15 minutes of BBC output a week, with the average being over 19 hours. The paper offers a critique of the notion of public value in neoliberal times.
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Papers by Peter Lee-Wright
Conference Presentations by Peter Lee-Wright
Dealing with a licence free freeze, ongoing cuts and commercial intentions, the BBC is committed to “Delivering Quality First”, a gnomic phrase requiring unpicking. The BBC Trust subjects its services to a ‘Public Value Test’, where they must “outweigh any potentially damaging impact on the market”. This emphasis on market ideology, which has seized the public sphere largely unchallenged, is neither supported by economic fact nor the greater part of the BBC’s audience, who must pay three times the licence fee for the most limited BSkyB entertainment package. 97% of the UK adult audience in 2011 still consumed at least 15 minutes of BBC output a week, with the average being over 19 hours. The paper offers a critique of the notion of public value in neoliberal times.
Dealing with a licence free freeze, ongoing cuts and commercial intentions, the BBC is committed to “Delivering Quality First”, a gnomic phrase requiring unpicking. The BBC Trust subjects its services to a ‘Public Value Test’, where they must “outweigh any potentially damaging impact on the market”. This emphasis on market ideology, which has seized the public sphere largely unchallenged, is neither supported by economic fact nor the greater part of the BBC’s audience, who must pay three times the licence fee for the most limited BSkyB entertainment package. 97% of the UK adult audience in 2011 still consumed at least 15 minutes of BBC output a week, with the average being over 19 hours. The paper offers a critique of the notion of public value in neoliberal times.