British media convergence bigwig to speak at SPAA

Stephen Carter, the man who re-engineered the UK’s regulatory landscape for media, is to offer a presentation on convergence at next month’s SPAA conference.

The session at the Screen Producers Association of Australia event is highly timely because Australia’s media regulations are undergoing a similar review to that carried out by Carter around seven years ago.

Carter created the UK super-regulator Ofcom after the merger of several individual media regulators. He later became a government minister and is now boss of telco giant Alacatel-Lucent.  

According to SPAA, Carter’s presentation will cover media convergence issues around the three Ps of politics, policy and profit.