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Recent years have been pretty dire for the BBC. The Jimmy Savile revelations, the Newsnight/Lord McAlpine debacle, the ignominious fall from grace of Director-General George Entwistle after just 54 days in the hot seat and the scandal of the top executives' pay-offs have all seriously damaged public trust in the Corporation. But as the BBC heads for negotiations on the new licence fee and charter renewal (both due in 2017) and the country prepares for a general election in 2015, the issues confronting the Corporation concern us all. Is the BBC in Crisis? is edited by Professor Richard Tait, former Editor-in-Chief of ITN and BBC Trustee, with academics John Mair and Professor Richard Lance Keeble. It brings together an unprecedented galaxy of movers and shakers (past and present) in British broadcasting - top politicians, experienced broadcasters, academics, PR experts, opinion pollsters and media campaigners - to debate the controversies and offer solutions: Michael Grade (Lord Grade of Yarmouth), former Chairman of both the BBC and ITV, former BBC Director of Television and Chief Executive of Channel 4, contributes an Introduction in which he makes a radical proposal for the future structure of the Corporation. In addition: ¿ Andrew Scadding, BBC Head of Corporate Affairs, on why, despite some tough times, the BBC's best years lie ahead of it. ¿ Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England, on the BBC's cultural mission. ¿ David Liddiment, BBC Trustee 2006-2014, former Network Controller ITV 1997-2002, on a revitalised governance system. ¿ Sir Howard Davies, Director of the LSE 2003-2011, on the 'need for clarity at the Corporation'. ¿ David Elstein, Chief Executive of Channel 5 1996-2000, on the licence fee. ¿ Tim Suter, Head of Broadcasting Policy DCMS 2002-2003, on 'A crisis of independence'. ¿ Vin Ray, 23 years with BBC and founding Director of the College of Journalism, on 'Thirteen days in the life of Newsnight'. ¿ Alice Enders, Senior Media Analyst at Enders Analysis, on 'What Britons think of the BBC'. ¿ Peter Preston, media columnist, the Observer, Editor, the Guardian 1975-95, on 'hard thinking ahead for the BBC'. Other contributors Professor Steven Barnett, Fiona Chesterton, Bernard Clark, Tara Conlan, Professor Tim Crook, Farrukh Dhondy, Torin Douglas, Atholl Duncan, David Edwards and David Cromwell, Professor Suzanne Franks, Phil Harding, Nicholas Jones, Professor Justin Lewis, Professor David Lloyd, Richard Peel, Professor Julian Petley, Professor Jean Seaton, Raymond Snoddy, Professor Brian Winston.

This special edition of Ethical Space addresses the lack of ethnic diversity in the British media. With a focus on newspapers, the book identifies the reasons for a shortage of minority ethnic groups in mainstream journalism and newsroom management. It also considers the effects of this shortage on media representations of minority groups. The project arose from an Economic and Social Research Council-funded seminar series on Widening Ethnic Diversity in Journalism. The seminars were unique in assembling diverse perspectives and fostering interactions across the social, industrial, academic and educational landscape. The contributors to this special double edition reflect this diversity by representing key dimensions of the subject: the mainstream and minority ethnic media industry, journalism education and academic research. While focusing mainly on the British context, the volume also contains a major section on international perspectives and outcomes which echo several issues about workforce diversity identified in the UK news industry. The aims of this book are to: ¿ assess industry-led strategies to address under-recruitment of Black and ethnic minority (BEM) journalists; ¿ to facilitate dialogue between educators, employers and BEM representatives about increasing BEM recruitment; ¿ advance scholarship about under-representation of BEM groups; ¿ identify policies and schemes to attract BEM recruitment into key roles in the media; and ¿ inform the development of policy and practice in government, media industries and journalism education and training to increase the representation of Black and ethnic minority communities in mainstream newsrooms and raise their participation and profile in civil society. Guest editors: David Baines leads the Journalism section of the Media and Cultural Studies group at Newcastle University while Deborah Chambers is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University