Reputations to Lose: BBC versus the Blair Government
This case is about the choices a publicly-funded news organization has to make when the government of the day attacks its editorial independence. In June 2003, what had been a short, live, early-morning exchange between a radio host and a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reporter escalated into a full-scale war, which pitted the BBC against Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government.
Case number:
CSJ-08-0009.0
Category:
Journalism Cases
Topics:
strategic management, international, broadcast
Teaching resources:
Epilogue,
Teaching note