Dan Hind writes for openDemocracy about the structural roots of the crisis in our media and lays out his proposal for public commissioning. Stephen Whitehead's review of The Return of the Public responds with praise.
Dan Hind is interviewed by Samuel Grove for the New LeftProject about The Return of the Public and his proposals for public commissioning—"in short, for the creation of a genuine public sphere."
Roy Greenslade, Guardian media commentator and professor of journalism at City University, has started reading Dan Hind's The Return of the Public and is intrigued by his proposal for a public commissioning of print and broadcast media.
Boyd Tonkin's review of new books about private hopes and public goods calls on politicians to take heed.
Dan Hind's The Return of the Public is praised as "a book marked by a sombre and scathing rhetoric that recalls the Frankfurt School critique of thinkers such as Adorno and Marcuse."
Dan Hind, author of The Threat to Reason and the forthcoming The Return of the Public, has launched a renewed offensive against Britain's "absurdly" one-sided libel legislation for the Guardian's "Comment is Free" ...