The Media Club with Matt Deegan

For one week only, John Plunkett (broadcast correspondent, the Guardian), presents this special from the UK's annual Radio Festival in Salford in the company of Helen Zaltzman (Answer Me This), Steve Ackerman (MD, Somethin’ Else) and Emma Barnett (Telegraph, 5Live).Iggy Pop delivered the keynote John Peel lecture, taking swipes at U2, file-sharing sites like Megaupload and the record industry - bu...

The US owner has promised big bucks, but few details - Olly Mann is joined by broadcast consultant Paul Robinson and the Director of Broadcasting at City University London, Lis Howell, to sift through the announcement for clues of what we can expect. Ofcom have received dozens of complaints after Sky News’ story on trolling is linked to the death of an interviewee. When is it right to doorstep and...

Trinity Mirror settles with ten high-profile, phone-hacking claimants and internet pranksters trick the mainstream media twice with the same story. Olly Mann plus guests James Robinson and Lisa Campbell discuss these and other stories from the media week. Also on the programme, Jeremy Paxman is to anchor Channel 4’s election coverage next year - but what kind of an alternative will he present to S...

The Met police were able to uncover a source for a Sun story using a RIPA request - how are we going to protect our sources in a digital age? Nick Wallis sits in for Olly Mann with guests Helen Zaltzman and creative director of Folder Media, Matt Deegan. Also on the programme, Rona Fairhead faces MPs before becoming the new chair of the BBC Trust - we discuss the highlights. Plus, a full report on...

Media news, analysis and opinion from Scotland’s annual television shindig. June Sarpong, Boyd Hilton and Jane Martinson join Olly Mann to discuss what TV bosses are thinking and debate the state of the industry today. Channel 4’s chief executive David Abraham delivers the keynote MacTaggart lecture - and ruffles the feathers of many independent companies listening in the auditorium, with talk of...

Media discussion and analysis from makers and thinkers in the industry. Olly Mann is joined this week by Jake Kanter of Broadcast Magazine and Steve Ackerman, MD of Somethin’ Else. As the BBC announces plans to broadcast the second Scottish referendum debate broadcast live across the UK, our pundits discuss STV’s bizarre decision to restrict access to online for England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

Media news and irreverent chatter with Olly Mann, joined this week by media consultant Paul Robinson and former TalkSPORT boss Moz Dee, now co-founder of Contented Digital Media. Radio listening figures were out on Thursday, so we take a moment to look at how the UK radio industry is faring - if you’ve never understood how RAJAR works, we have a handy explainer. There were great gains for digital...

Media punditry and irreverent chatter recorded in central London, this week with presenter Olly Mann, media writer Maggie Brown and Lis Howell, director of broadcasting at City University London. We knew jobs were to go at BBC News, now we know how many and where: hundreds of staff are to be cut from major strands, including Panorama, leading to more work for independents and a focus on digital ou...

Journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer sits in the presenter chair this week, discussing the week’s media news with Helen Zaltzman (Answer Me This, 5Live) and interactive producer Alex Hudson (Question Time, Newsbeat).The BBC’s director general Tony Hall proposed on Thursday that the corporation’s in-house production arm should be able to make shows from other broadcasters - and in return indie...

This week: Olly Mann is joined by Steve Ackerman, managing director of production company Somethin’ Else and James Robinson, consultant at Powerscourt PR and former media editor at the Observer. It’s all change at Radio 5 Live as the station shakes up its daytime schedule. Shelagh Fogarty, Victoria Derbyshire and Richard Bacon are departing, making room for Adrian Chiles, Tony Livesey and Football...

Olly Mann is joined by media commentator Roy Greenslade, former broadcast exec Lis Howell and radio consultant Matt Deegan to discuss the biggest media stories of the week. The first wave of hacking prosecutions draw to a close, with former News of the World editor Andy Coulson found guilty of conspiracy to hack phones - whilst Rebecca Brooks is cleared of all charges. What is does the future hold...

John Oliver’s new HBO show is making waves, while the FIFA World Cup is breaking ratings records across the world. Olly Mann is joined from San Francisco by Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and in London by Faraz Osman, creative director of TV indie Lemonade Money. The panel discuss these and other media stories of the week, including the news th...

The BBC's Robert Peston and former Guardian columnist Michael Woolf both go off-message and take their respective employers to task. Olly Mann takes a look at what they said, in the company of Heat magazine's TV editor Boyd Hilton and Guardian contributor Maggie Brown. Plus, Channel 4 aims to steal a march on ITV’s Rising Star with its own talent show where viewers vote via appAnd as the World Cup...

Gossip and news from media insiders, this week featuring Stephen 'Stig' Abell, managing editor of The Sun and Paul Robinson, chief executive of the Radio Academy. Broadcaster and columnist Olly Mann sits in the presenting chair for the first edition of The Media Podcast, where we discuss the week's top stories, including:* yet more cuts to staff at the BBC, this time in news and radio. How will it...