Television and the Second Screen.

This book examines an emerging and fast evolving phenomena: that a growing number of people engage with two screens whilst watching television. It seems a simple concept – until we discover the important implications. In doing this, this book will move way beyond the study of online and multimedia content. It will go past the impact of mobile and multi-platform technology on the media. Instead it will examine how this new concept of second screen interactivity changes the way we watch, produce, commission and monetise television programmes in the UK.

INTERACTIVE AND IMMERSIVE: Factual transmedia narratives around experiences of displacement and migration.

This article will examine how media organisations are increasingly experimenting and innovating with interactive transmedia forms to explore issues around displacement and the ongoing migration crisis. I plan to interview a number of key industry figures with a view to understand how and why journalists and producers are expanding the scope of factual storytelling beyond traditional media platforms. It will include a number of industry case studies.

Little reason to smile as Iannucci lays bare the tension between BBC and Tories.

Studying the impact of Armando Iannucci's McTaggart Lecture on the debate over the future of public service broadcasting in the UK.