Posts tagged ‘Policy’
Policy: Broadcast plans
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Two station closures and a halt to regional news websites are the main results from the BBC’s strategic review. Peter Cheney looks at what lies ahead for the Beeb. The BBC’s reach within the UK cannot be denied. Ninety-eight per cent of adults click, listen or watch it each week. A third of the population goes to the website each month. Where its quality is good, particularly in news and natural history, its reputation extends worldwide. However, critics claim that the BBC has overstretched itself by going into magazine publishing and extra digital channels. Free access to BBC News...[full story]
Policy: Projecting population
Monday, March 8th, 2010Why does counting people up matter to governments? Peter Cheney looks at how Northern Ireland’s future population is estimated and some uses for the statistics. Since Babylonian times, countries have counted their people in regular censuses. Our next one is next year. As well as these snapshots in time, governments also find it useful to look ahead and predict whether and by how much their populations will grow or decline in future. Every two years, a population projection is brought out for Northern Ireland and the most recent, published in October 2009, covers the period 2008-2013. Two...[full story]
