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UK politics
Johnson accused of creating conflict of interest over Ofcom chair
...Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation and professor of media history at Westminster university, also raised concerns about Hanover’s connections with Sky....
November 7, 2021
Letter
Letter: Why we must examine Johnson’s BBC ‘choices’
...Professor Timothy Garton Ash Professor of European Studies Oxford university Professor Jean Seaton Westminster University Will Hutton Co-chair, The Purposeful Company Damian Tambini Distinguished Policy...
September 29, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthBBC
Diana interview inquiry sparks fresh crisis of trust for the BBC
...Seaton, the official BBC historian....
May 21, 2021
BBC
Culture secretary leaves door open to top roles for BBC arch-critics
...Letters in response to this article: Why we must examine Johnson’s BBC ‘choices’ / From Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor Jean Seaton, Will Hutton and Damian Tambini Broadcaster’s changing of guard...
September 27, 2020
Person in the News
Tim Davie, the new no-nonsense BBC boss
...But Jean Seaton, the BBC’s official historian, thinks Michael Checkland might be a closer parallel....
September 4, 2020
BBC
BBC braced for funding battle after Johnson’s triumph
...Jean Seaton, media historian at the University of Westminster, said: “Not going on the BBC is denying the British public the opportunity of having its ministers interrogated....
December 19, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Letter
Counter-terror bill threatens journalists
...Seaton Professor of Media History, University of Westminster, and official historian of the BBC Mary Fitzgerald Editor-in-Chief, Open Democracy...
December 13, 2018
Brexit
Tusk warns of a ‘special place in hell’ for Brexiters with no plan
...The difficulties Mrs May will face in Brussels were later underlined by Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, who said the EU “cannot reopen the discussion on the backstop”....
February 6, 2019
UK press regulation
We urge Cameron to stand by his promises on press regulation
...Seaton Professor of Media History, University of Westminster...
April 7, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
Summer reading: Politics
...Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation 1974-1987, by Jean Seaton, Profile, RRP£30 A history of just 13 years at the BBC could, in the wrong hands, be little more than an arid institutional story....
June 26, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation, 1974-1987’, by Jean Seaton
...Jean Seaton does something similar in ‘Pinkoes and Traitors’, her portrait of this remarkable, talented, sometimes sanctimonious, undermanaged and over-managed, both establishment and dissenting, often brave...
February 27, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2015
...Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation 1974-1987, by Jean Seaton, Profile, RRP£30 A history of just 13 years at the BBC could, in the wrong hands, be little more than an arid institutional story....
June 26, 2015
Letter
FT has a moral authority in vital debate on press
...Seaton, Professor of Media History, University of Westminster Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University Letter in response to this letter: Trust in a free press and criminal law/ From Mr...
July 23, 2013
Letter
The press should accept the will of parliament
...Seaton, Professor of Media History, University of Westminster Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University Lorna Woods, Professor of Law, City University...
April 26, 2013
ReviewUK politics
Tony Hall named BBC’s director-general
...Professor Jean Seaton, the official historian of the BBC, said Lord Hall was the oldest of the 17 DGs since 1927, at 61....
November 22, 2012
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Letter
Hunt-Black proposals not in best interests of journalism
...Seaton, Professor of Media History, University of Westminster Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University Lorna Woods, Professor of Law, City University...
October 31, 2012
UK politics
Mark Thompson to leave BBC after Olympics
...I saw him quite recently and I didn’t get the impression that he was searching for somebody [to fill the director-general role],” said Jean Seaton, the BBC’s historian and professor of media history at the...
March 19, 2012
UK companies
Thompson to leave BBC stronger but poorer
...“Historically [director generals] have mostly been hired internally because public service values are not the same as commercial or government values,” says Jean Seaton, the BBC’s historian and professor...
March 19, 2012
UK politics
Intimidation that took the place of robust diplomacy
...From Prof Steven Barnett and Prof Jean Seaton....
October 23, 2010
World
BBC finances ‘cut’ at Foreign Office
...Sir, Professors Steven Barnett and Jean Seaton rightly question the propriety of the imposition on the BBC of responsibility for the funding of the World Service in last month’s comprehensive spending review...
November 1, 2010
Life & Arts
The waistcoat is enjoying a revival
...Oliver Spencer, meanwhile, likes to wear his matching waistcoat and jacket with chinos, and even pairs his smart Favourbrook brocade versions (from £190) with a T-shirt and jeans....
October 29, 2010
UK companies
BSkyB keeps focus as Murdoch prowls
...In a letter to the Financial Times, two academics, Jean Seaton and Steve Barnett of the University of Westminster, write that transferring “a raft of departmental spending to the BBC, while freezing the...
October 22, 2010
Life & Arts
Morals and the story
...A stunning account of this is just out this week: the writer Jean Seaton, long pre-eminent among those who illuminate the nature of the media, has written a prolonged reflection on our own Robespierrean...
September 9, 2005

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