Media Reform Coalition
@mediareformUK
We campaign for a more democratic & accountable media, where diversity, public interest & ethical journalism come before the private gain of a few media moguls.
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How can Ofcom ensure broadcasters provide fair and balanced election coverage, when it has failed so spectacularly in holding GB News to account?
Useful thread & article from Stephen Cushion:
theconversation.com/gb-newss-first…
🚀 The Bristol Cable's new membership campaign is live!
We're aiming to raise our membership income 25% before 2024, and by 50% in total within a year.
Here’s the plan:
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PS: Have you seen our #BackTheCable billboards around #Bristol yet?
![🚀 @TheBristolCable's new membership campaign is live! We're aiming to raise our membership income 25% before 2024, and by 50% in total within a year. Here’s the plan: [1/10]🧵👇 PS: Have you seen our #BackTheCable billboards around #Bristol yet?](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7CRszBXUAA8Mba.jpg "The Bristol Cable (@TheBristolCable) on Twitter photo 2023-09-27 13:36:47 🚀 @TheBristolCable's new membership campaign is live! We're aiming to raise our membership income 25% before 2024, and by 50% in total within a year. Here’s the plan: [1/10]🧵👇 PS: Have you seen our #BackTheCable billboards around #Bristol yet?")
Tom Watson Labour peer Tom Watson says repealing Section 40 'is a venal deal to appease media barons.'
'Controversial policy should not be rushed through in wash-up - we've done it before and we came to regret it. When it comes to media reform, we have to be incredibly transparent.'
The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) Children's Media International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) Dr Rob Watson Media Reform Coalition From earliest days of the Media Bill, government has not given any meaningful justification for removing vital genres from the PSB remit.
Peers across all parties fought to protect universal PSB. A huge shame that gov sees citizens' interests as an acceptable casualty of wash-up
'Inform, educate & entertain' enshrined in law, but PSBs no longer required to deliver specific genres that markets rarely provide
A pyrrhic victory for citizens' interests, following a strong campaign by The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) Children's Media International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) Dr Rob Watson Media Reform Coalition & others
🔴The Spectacle of Impunity: Phone Hacking Coverup Claims Cross the Atlantic
With news that senior Murdoch executives now face a civil trial, Peter Jukes looks back on a decade of deceit
bylinetimes.com/2024/05/22/the…
'If one sector of a profession happens to be corrupt, it is highly likely that the corruption in some way may reach inside the regulator.'
Nick Davies on how spectacularly the old Press Complaints Commission failed to do its job on phone hacking.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…
Thanks to tax loopholes, weak regulation & years of buying out 100s of local stations, Global holds excessive power over what UK audiences hear on their radios.
This excellent Byline Times piece show the urgent need to tackle concentrated media ownership mediareform.org.uk/blog/new-repor…
A decade on from the UK phone-hacking trial, Nick Davies has revisited the story he first brought to light.
He has trawled through emerging evidence, raising new questions for the Murdochs, Rebekah Brooks and other executives.
Read the series:
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…
Platforms like Google need to pay for the news they use.
But for too long, Big Tech & policymakers have overlooked smaller independent outlets which provide valuable public interest news to UK communities.
Read more from Public Interest News Foundation's News For All campaign: publicinterestnews.org.uk/post/on-regula…
UK authority on press regulation Press Recognition Panel (PRP) has today published a report on sham regulator Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) which finds it is 'fail[ing] to protect children and victims of crime”
Comment: hackinginquiry.org/press-release-…
Report: pressrecognitionpanel.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
This Govt is in the middle of repealing Leveson-recommended legislation to protect hundreds of independent and local newspapers from SLAPPs, through the Media Bill.
Genuinely care about press freedom? Change course, Lucy Frazer .
In new court documents, Rupert Murdoch is accused of giving false answers to parliament and to the Leveson inquiry. Did he know more about phone-hacking than he let on?
✍🏼 Nick Davies investigates.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…
In 2014, Scotland Yard chose not to interview Rupert Murdoch over potential crimes at his British newspapers.
But now a major new case brought by Prince Harry casts some light on the questions that Murdoch might have faced.
✍🏼 Nick Davies explains.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/ph…
Sky News special correspondent Alex Crawford has slammed press freedom speeches given by the Prime Minister and Culture Secretary this week as “empty words” in light of the ongoing Israeli ban on journalists entering Gaza
pressgazette.co.uk/news/alex-craw…