Neil Midgley

Profile: Full name: Neil Midgley Area of interest: Media Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: neil.midgley@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/neil-midgley Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/author/neilmidgley Representation: Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/neil-midgley/6/65b/255 | http://twitter.com/#!/NeilMidgley

Biography: About: Education: Career: Former assistant editor of the Daily Telegraph January 2004/August 2011, now a freelance media commentator and still writes for the Telegraph Current position/role: also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Telegraph's Midgley takes to the ice - The Guardian, 3rd august 2009 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

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Articles: Selected articles What the BBC Knew, BBC One - review: a Panorama special examining Newsnight's controversial decision to drop an investigation into Jimmy Savile's alleged abuse of children - 25th October 2012 Time for George Entwistle and the BBC to get with the programme - George Entwistle, the new director-general, has until 2016 to rein in the broadcaster’s sprawl - 18th September 2012 George Entwistle: BBC exec with decades of programme experience is best man for the job - 5th July 2012 What's going on at the BBC? - Arguments over the Jubilee Pageant coverage show fault lines within the corporation - 7th June 2012 Will BBC cuts ruin BBC4? - The highbrow channel has been a huge success, but BBC cuts may damage it - 23rd February 2012 Desert Island Discs: Britain's longest-running radio show - Joanna Lumley wishes she’d been asked if she can swim – and Roy Plomley ‘never was a very good interviewer’. Neil Midgley reports on Desert Island Discs' 70th anniversary - 9th February 2012 The Killing: the cream of the crop of European detective drama - As Danish thriller The Killing returns to BBC Four, Neil Midgley asks what it is about the cops of Europe that has gripped the UK - 24th November 2011 Why the BBC needs to listen to its own local radio stations - Across England, local radio’s content budget will be cut by £5.3 million - 18th November 2011 BBC should have made bolder cuts and reshaped itself - Mark Thompson, the BBC director-general, wasted his chance to reshape the BBC for the fully digital age - 7th October 2011 The underdog bites back - Downton Abbey has been one of the few British TV series to beat the Americans at their own game - 19th September 2011 Why take the wrecking ball to BBC Four? - Mark Thompson must think twice before making cuts to the BBC's most distinctive channel - 18th August 2011 Chris Patten must tune the BBC to its strengths - The new chairman will be a success if he can streamline the sprawling corporation - 28th February 2011 The BBC has good reasons to celebrate - The corporation knows its future income, and has effectively escaped from political interference - 21st October 2010 The BBC's fat cats still need chopping down to size - Neil Midgley says the DG should face up to the reality of cuts - 11th August 2010 Is the BBC losing its grip? - With its stars being picked off by rival broadcasters and looming cuts to pay and pensions, the mood at the BBC is said to be 'sulphurous' - 6th July 2010 BBC drama must keep us glued to our sets - Gripping series are the way to stop the creative rot at the corporation - 26th March 2010 The X Factor brings a little honest vulgarity to draw our nation together - Neil Midgley visits The X-Factor Live for a celebration of singers who will soon be forgotten - 22nd March 2010 The joy of the Winter Olympics - From Cold War politics to the Jamaican bobsleigh team, the Winter Olympics are riveting for all the wrong reasons - 13th February (Winter Olympics) Comedic gay-bashing isn't funny, but it shouldn't be banned - Criminalising homophobic expressions is another step towards abolishing freedom of speech - 21st March 2009

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