Channel 4’s £75 million “victory” in prising The Great British Bake Off from the BBC is one of the great disasters in the channel’s recent history, in ways that they probably haven’t even yet begun to realise.

From the way sexual scandals are covered, to crackdowns on off-the-record conversations, the way the media and Government interact is entering a new era, writes Raymond Snoddy

Have traditional broadcasters really hit a stale patch, stifled by a love for nostalgia and a reluctance to innovate? Raymond Snoddy dissects the latest in a series of assaults on television

From the BBC’s annoying channel-swapping, to NBC’s terrible adverts-to-sport ratio, how is the way we watch major sporting events changing, asks Raymond Snoddy

There is a commendable rise recently of media companies trying out new business ideas, writes Raymond Snoddy – but the tricky thing about innovation is that it doesn’t always work.

Many journalists view Trump as a high-risk demagogue – but is that a good enough excuse for them to throw their best-practice textbooks out of the window, asks Raymond Snoddy

Will withholding the names and images of terrorists from TV and newspapers have any real impact in the age of social media, asks Raymond Snoddy

Kelvin MacKenzie’s hijab outburst speaks to serious issues about where the limits of freedom of speech should be drawn and what constitutes TV visual impartiality in a multi-cultural society, writes Raymond Snoddy.

As Karen Bradley replaces John Whittingdale as Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, it’s time to act decisively on a number of key media issues, writes Raymond Snoddy

From the recent Tory leadership race, to the Chilcot inquiry and Iraq war, newspapers still very much set the political agenda, writes Raymond Snoddy – but not always for good…