The publication The Price of Plurality:Choice, Diversity and Broadcasting Institutions in the Digital Age which David Levy co-edited with Tim Gardam for the UK media regulator Ofcom www.ofcom.org
Ofcom commissioned this book of essays examining the future of UK public service broadcasting at the approach of digital switchover . Plurality has been at the heart of the UK broadcasting ecology in which high levels of innovation and investment have been delivered by a wide range of different public service broadcasters. The book explores to what extent that will still be sustainable in a fully digital and on-demand world.
The Price of Plurality brings together a wide variety of perspectives on this critical issues from media academics such as Jean Seaton and Richard Tait, producers like Peter Bazalgette and Anthony Lilley, and politicians such as David Puttnam and John Whittingdale. It is published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk