Tim Suter, former BBC managing editor and a founding partner at Ofcom on the new Media Bill, quotas and accountability

Tim Suter, is a former managing editor of current affairs at the BBC, who later became a specialist adviser at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport which brought in the last media bill in 2003. That’s the one which which set up Ofcom, the UK’s media and communications regulator, of which Tim became a founding partner. He now runs his own consultancy, Perspective Associates. We discuss what the new Media Bill means, the dismantling of quotas for public services broadcasters, the remit of Channel 4 and accountability."This piece of legislation leaves an accountability shaped hole that the public media institutions urgently need to fill."Support the podcast by signing up here Find all our podcasts here @BeebRoger@[email protected]: [email protected] Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.