The Media Club with Matt Deegan

Jake Kanter (Business Insider) and guests descend on Edinburgh for the biggest date in the industry - featuring Alison Kirkham (BBC Controller of Factual Commissioning) Faraz Osman (MD, Gold Wala ) and Scott Bryan (Buzzfeed). Jeremy Corbyn’s big idea for tech giants to subsidise the BBC, Michaela Coel’s punch on the nose for British TV in a brutally honest MacTaggart lecture, and a rude awakening...

Media news and analysis with Olly Mann and guests radio producer Trevor Dann (Audio UK) & journalist and writer Tobi Oredein (Black Ballad). What does another new culture secretary mean for the industry? Who won the latest copyright battle between the internet giants and the EU? What will LBC do with Eddie Mair? Our panel discuss these stories. Also on the programme: we speak to Lisa Campbell...

THE MEDIA PODCAST QUIZ - LIVE! - TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE Join Olly Mann and Media Podcast regulars for our biggest ever Media Quiz to celebrate our 100th episode. Thursday 19 July 2018, 7pm, Exmouth Market, London EC1R. Full details: http://themediapodcast.com/live Episode 99: Media industry news and gossip presented by Olly Mann with guests Rebecca Gillie, journalist at The Week.co.uk , and radio c...

Media news and analysis, with Olly Mann and this week's guests Talkback's Leon Wilson and former Discovery exec Prof. Lis Howell. The panel discuss how Paul Dacre’s departure will affect the Daily Mail, what the secret sauce is in Love Island’s success, and allegations surrounding local TV provider 'That's TV'. Also on the programme, we field questions from Audioboom clients to exec Ruth Fitzsimon...

Media news and analysis, with Olly Mann and guests Imriel Morgan (ShoutOut Network) and Alex Hudson (metro.co.uk). With the Evening Standard under fire for their leaked branded content strategy, we ask are companies paying for favourable coverage and does it matter? Also on the programme, we discuss the news that Grimmy and Greg are to swap shows on Radio 1, and could we be about to see a par...

Olly Mann and Rhianna Dhillon were live at Saturday's British Podcast Awards in London, talking to the winners and audio industry execs about the future of the medium. If you're looking to understand this emerging media platform, there's no better place to start. Featuring interviews with the winner of Podcast of the Year Cariad Lloyd and Listeners Choice winners Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, as we...

Olly Mann presents news and analysis of the media industry with Somethin’ Else managing director Steve Ackerman , and Heat magazine ’s entertainments director, Boyd Hilton . This week: Testing times for Audioboom as a takeover proposal is withdrawn. How YouTube plans to recover from its annus horribilis. Could a UK streaming service revolutionise pay-per-view sports? ‘Digital’ radio listening beat...

Olly Mann presents news and analysis of the media industry with editor in chief of Business Insider UK, Jim Edwards , plus freelance journalist and special projects editor at Buzzfeed UK, Louise Ridley . This week: How does press freedom in the UK compare to the rest of the world, the BBC partners to sell podcast ads, and why Al-Jazeera’s London staff are striking. All that, plus life after mornin...

Informed insight and analysis of the media industries with  Olly Mann  and guests – journalist for  The Week magazine ,  Rebecca Gillie  and managing director and head of creative at  Gold Wala ,  Faraz Osman . On the show this week: As a Daily Mail journalist is fired for accidentally publishing the c-word, should online publishers be spending more on sub-editor...

Olly Mann is joined by broadcast consultant Matt Deegan (Folder Media) and journalist Kieran Yates to dissect the week’s media news; how did the media fare in the gender pay gap revelations? Also on the programme: our panel discuss Monocle’s intern woes, Disney’s lifeline for Sky News... and just who will be presenting this year’s MacTaggart keynote in Edinburgh. All that AND we crunch the numbers...

In this bonus episode of The Media Podcast, radio consultant Paul Robinson reports from RadioDays Europe 2018 in Vienna. Ultravox frontman Midge Ure tells Paul why radio stations wanted him to trim the length of Vienna; Daniela Linzer , programme director of Austria's national station Kronehit on the tough competition between public and commercial broadcasters in Austria; Director of BBC radio Bob...

Media insight and analysis with host Olly Mann and guests LIs Howell and Alex Hudson. The panel hear from some of the guests at the RadioDays Europe conference in Vienna, and consider how the Cambridge Analytica story could change the way Facebook is regulated. Also on the programme: can ITV’s Saturday Night Takeaway survive without Ant, who killed the NME, and why are the BBC having more pre...

Media news and analysis, this week recorded at the Guardian's Changing Media Summit. Olly Mann is joined by delegates to discuss some of the key trends in international media, as well as covering the big media stories of the week. On the programme: Sam Baker (The Pool) and Matt Kelly (The New European) discuss the role of a partisan press in a digital age, as well as what the end of Leveson 2 mean...

Media insight and analysis, with Olly Mann and guests Paul Robinson and Nastaran Tavakolifar. The panel discuss the Guardian's new interactive storytelling for audio, as well as Twitter bringing a new approach to live video. Also on the programme: Murdoch commits to Sky News for another decade, the BBC brings in the big guns to sell shows abroad, advertisers bail from the Daily Mail, and 'hey Siri...

Media news and analysis, with Olly Mann guests Boyd Hilton (Heat magazine) and Rebecca Gillie (theweek.co.uk). The panel discuss the big stories of the week, including the news that Richard Desmond is (finally) poised to sell his paper empire, whilst purchasers Trinity Mirror face phone hacking victims in court. We discuss those stories, plus Ian Katz's first moves at Channel 4, why 6Music might n...

Media writer  Maggie Brown  and  Somethin’ Else  managing director  Steve Ackerman  join  Olly Mann  to discuss the biggest stories of the week from the TV, radio, online and print industries. This week: How competition concerns have scuppered the Murdoch family’s reach for the sky; New algorithms at Facebook are poised to reunite friends, but at what expens...

Olly Mann is joined by top industry insiders to reveal their trends for the year ahead in tv, radio, print and online. Louise Ridley (Buzzfeed), TV producer Faraz Osman, Business Insider's Jake Kanter and Holden Frith and Rebecca Gillie from theweek.co.uk share their tips. Also on the programme: we discuss the latest pay row at the BBC, the news that Radio 2’s new daytime schedule has an actual wo...

With investigative reporter Meave McClenaghan (The Tip Off), consultant Matt Deegan (Folder Media) and... whatever was left of the voice of Olly Mann. As Disney and Fox tie the knot, the panel debate what it all means for Sky News and for Murdoch’s print empire. Also on the programme: Buzzfeed announce big cuts to its UK new operation, and awards season continues as we look at the winners of the B...

#84 - The Death of Soho, Audie Awards 2017 and Children’s Repeats - The Media Podcast with Olly Mann News, analysis and gossip from the creative media industries with Olly Mann . This week Lisa Campbell (director, Edinburgh International TV Festival) and Paul Robinson (broadcast consultant) discuss what counts as a new production in children’s TV - how often can broadcasters repeat a show before t...

Iain Katz leaves Newsnight to take on the top job at Channel 4, former controller Jay Hunt announces she’s off to work for Apple... With careers spanning print to tv to online, what do these appointments say about the way the media is changing? Also on the programme: as the Weinstein scandal moves to Westminster, we look at how UK newsrooms are attempting to drain the swamp, and we crunch ALL the...

News and analysis from the creative industries with  Olly Mann  and guests  James Ball  (Special Correspondent for  Buzzfeed UK ), and  Nastaran Tavakoli-Far  ( BBC World Service ). As male movie execs are outed, and more actors and presenters share their stories of harassment, our panel debate if this scandal will be the one that finally changes the culture of t...

Media news and analysis, this week with Jake Kanter (Business Insider UK) and Rebecca Gillie (The Week Online). Google back down over their ‘first click free’ policy, taking pressure off news sites like the FT and The Times - our panel explain all. Plus, who will be the next head of Channel 4? Was Nick Robinson right to say that the alternative media has launched a ‘guerrilla war’ with the mainstr...

Every now and then we like to share a great podcast we've heard recently. This is a new one by Prospect Magazine, where each week they attempt to tackle a particularly thorny problem that has vexed world leaders and industry. This week's seemed particularly relevant, because it's called 'How to Fix... Newspapers.' We hope you like it - thanks to Prospect Magazine for allowing us to use this conten...

Olly Mann is joined by Broadcast Magazine’s Peter White and broadcaster and audio producer Ruth Barnes to discuss the week’s media news. The panel tackle the big talking points from the Cambridge Media Convention, including the latest on Channel 4 verse the culture secretary, James Murdoch using Brexit to full advantage, and OFCOM tackles the industry’s diversity problem. Plus: why the EU might de...

The full, unedited James MacTaggart memorial lecture, as presented at the Edinburgh international television festival 2017 by Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow. This is a moving and highly personal journey through a career spanning 40 years in journalism. Snow considers who audiences can trust in a new world of alternative facts and false realities. He asks why journalists didn't spot Grenfell Tower...