Media Show

Dame Elizabeth Filkin on relations between press and police; Lord Birt on problems for the next BBC Director General and Broadcast magazine's campaign for more women experts on news programmes.

What next for the Sun and the Sun on Sunday as James Murdoch steps down from News International and the police claim there was a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun. Also we hear from Nick Davies who has just won the Paul Foot Award for campaigning journalism for his breaking stories on phone hacking. Radio executive John Myers reviews planned changes to BBC local radio and media analyst Theresa Wise looks at ITV's figures, out today.

The Sunday Times editor John Witherow pays tribute to Marie Colvin; We discuss the challenges for the Sun on Sunday; And, following last week's discussion on women in the media, Rowan Atkinson contacted the programme to question whether anti-discrimination laws have any place in the creative industries.

Lorraine Heggessey and Joan Smith respond to Mark Thompson's admission that there should be more older women on TV. The life and career of veteran Royal correspondent James Whitaker and has the investigation into bribery at the Sun gone too far?

As Facebook goes public, what are the challenges ahead; can the BBC avoid controversy when covering an independence referendum in Scotland; why phone hacking cases are settling.

Last week the Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, announced he's started looking for a successor for the current Director General, Mark Thompson. The following day Thompson reportedly confirmed he'll step down after the Olympics. Is he going voluntarily or is he being pushed? And what qualities will his replacement need to have? Steve discusses BBC Director General succession with former DG Greg Dyke. The Sunday Times magazine is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend. Steve looks back on half a century of iconic photojournalism. Lord Hunt of Wirral, the new chairman of the Press Complaint Commission, took the stand at the Leveson Inquiry on Tuesday. He used the opportunity to set out his plans for a reformed 'PCC 2'. Charlotte Harris is a lawyer who's represented several victims of phone hacking and had her phone hacked herself. She joins Steve and Media Editor at The Guardian, Dan Sabbagh, to discuss Lord Hunt's proposals. The producer is Simon Tillotson.

Last Autumn BBC management proposed a wide-ranging series of cuts which would see the Corporation's local radio services cut by 20%. As the BBC Trust prepares to publish the results of its consultation on the plan, Steve talks to Lord Patten, Chair of the Trust. Will the cuts go ahead? And if not, what can the BBC do instead to make the savings? Plus, Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, on the Government's plans for the communications sector, to be laid out for consultation early this year. The producer is Simon Tillotson.

Steve Hewlett talks to James Harding, editor of The Times and Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian. Harding reflects on his evidence to the Leveson inquiry this week, Rusbridger on the falling sales which have forced The Guardian to reduce "pagination." Supplements have been folded into the paper and the sport has returned to the back page instead of being in a separate mini-paper. We also hear why Associated Press has opened up a bureau in North Korea and we discuss the growing controversy over intellectual property on the internet. The producer is Simon Tillotson.

Netflix, the video streaming service which enables customers to watch films and selected TV programmes over the internet, launched in the UK on Monday. Reed Hastings, the company's founder, claims that 'on demand' services like Netflix represent the future of TV. So is it really the beginning of the end for traditional TV? Reed Hastings makes his case to Steve, Tess Alps from the TV marketing organisation Thinkbox and Geoff Slaughter from comparison website SimplifyDigital respond. Also: TV ratings. Who's going up, who's going down and what does that tell us about longer term viewing trends? TV writer Stephen Price crunches the numbers. The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, ethics and practices of the press has resumed after the Christmas break. This week it's been the turn of the newspaper editors to have their say.The Financial Times' chief media correspondent Ben Fenton has been following developments. The producer is Simon Tillotson.

How important was the Daily Mail's campaigning journalism in securing the conviction of the men who killed Stephen Lawrence? What will new recommendations on the relationship between journalists and police mean for crime reporters? Why has Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter, and why didn't Twitter realise that a person claiming to be his wife Wendi Deng was an imposter? And should or could journalists have done more to warn against the financial crisis?

The media like stories claiming to link TV with harm to children, but is the picture so clear? Focussing on two recent pieces of research by Prof Dimitri Christakis and Prof Angeline Lillard, Steve discusses the extent to which media reports of the link can be justified. Joining him are David Buckingham who is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education at London University and Director of the Centre for the study of Children, Youth and Media, Baroness Susan Greenfield, a neuroscientist and Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University and Hannah Devlin, Science Correspondent for the Times with a PhD in brain imaging from Oxford University. The producer is Luke Mulhall.

Steve discusses the changes to tabloids and the wider media since David Cameron announced the Leveson Inquiry in July, just ahead of the closure of the News of the World, with Simon Jenkins, George Brock, Claire Enders and Trevor Kavanagh. Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist and former Times and Evening Standard editor, Claire Enders is the founder of media consultants Enders Analysis, Prof George Brock is Head of Journalism at City University and Trevor Kavanagh is a Sun columnist and former political editor. The producer is Simon Tillotson.

Harriet Harman MP is the new shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport. So what are Labour's policies on the media generally and, specifically, on the BBC and on the Murdochs? Neville Thurlbeck was chief news reporter at the News of the World when it closed in July, where he had worked for twenty years. He was the reporter on the Max Mosley story and, separately, his name came up in reports of the Gordon Taylor phone hacking scandal when the phrase "for Neville" appeared on an emailed transcript of hacked voicemails. He denies involvement in phone hacking and tells Steve how he tried to clear his name when his connection with it was first suggested.

Jonathan Miller is back from Syria, where he's been reporting for ITN and working on a documentary for Channel 4. He tells Anne what it is like to work openly as a foreign reporter in Syria and what happened when he tried to talk to people who had not been approved by his minders. Attorney General Dominic Grieve MP has been flagging up his intention to prosecute journalists who threaten to prejudice or impede trials, with a handful of convictions already since he took office 18 months ago. Will he fine journalists in future, or go further and jail them? And The Independent's had two front page stories this week on lobbyists Bell Pottinger, based on secret filming of their staff when bidding for new business. Iain Overton worked on the story for the Bureau of Investigation, and how does The Times' Danny Finkelstein respond to the lobbyists claims that he is worth targeting to place ideas in his columns? The producer is Simon Tillotson.

With tabloid newspapers under sustained attack at the Leveson Inquiry, The Sun's managing editor Richard Caseby talks about his paper's future. The front pages of the upmarket newspapers yesterday carried the story told by Charlotte Church in Monday's Leveson session: that, when she was 13, she turned down £100,000 to sing Pie Jesu at Rupert Murdoch's wedding to Wendi Deng in exchange for favourable coverage. Jonathan Shalit was her agent at the time and he tells Steve what he remembers of the deal - business as usual or a "Faustian pact"? And paparazzo Max Cisotti responds to the series of claims made against press and celebrity photographers in the Leveson sessions so far - in his view, are celebrities and people in the news really responsible for the way they are treated? The producer is Simon Tillotson.