Media Reform Coalition

Will the Financial Times be the latest jewel in the Murdoch crown?

Rumours swirled across the international media this week that Rupert Murdoch, in partnership with the state media of Abu Dhabi,…..

Media, demonisation of the poor, and suggestions from the Green Party

Watch footage from our Rally for Media Reform where Green Party leader Natalie Bennett spoke about media, the demonisation of…..

Scapegoating to Divide and Rule: the importance of getting it right

Did you miss our Rally for Media Reform on June 17th? It’s not too late to catch up: here’s Owen…..

Report from the Lords select committee on plurality, 25 June

As MPs call on Lord Justice Leveson to comment on the shameful stalemate that has prevailed over press regulation since…..

Natalie Bennett: we must go back to Leveson for true media reform

This post is by Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, originally appeared on the Huffington Post. We reprint it here…..

Our Media, Not Theirs: report from the Media Reform rally, 17 June

This post is reproduced, with kind permission, from the website of the National Union of Journalists. It does not represent our…..

PRESS RELEASE: Our media – not theirs! Rally for media reform

We welcome Harriet Harman’s comments on the need to introduce some tough rules on media ownership in order to challenge…..

Response to Harriet Harman’s speech on media ownership

On Thursday 13 June shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman used Westminster University’s annual Charles Wheeler lecture to call for laws…..

American surveillance raises tough questions for British journalists

By Laurence Dodds Over the last week, revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance programme have burst into the public sphere in a…..

Real Journalism After Leveson: how do we achieve it?

This is a talk given by Angela Phillips at an event called ‘After Leveson: is citizen journalism the answer?’ The event…..

Lucy Meadows coroner rules press played a part in her suicide

It is rare that members of the press are directly confronted with the results of their reporting decisions. But at…..

Local media plurality stinks, but democratic owners could revive it

Last week we published a guest post by Dave Boyle about community ownership of local media – and how communities…..

Local media isn’t dead – only the old ways of running it

By Dave Boyle Local media? Yesterday’s news, right? You’d be forgiven for thinking that the decline of the local press is…..

Free workshops on making community-owned media work

This is a guest post by Dave Boyle, a experienced community organiser who is trying to revitalise local media from…..

Tell the government they must reject the press barons’ charter

The government is launching a consultation on the press industry’s ‘rival’ Royal Charter – and we need your help to…..

Report finds Leveson coverage heavy on invective, light on facts

On some days, reading press coverage of the Leveson Report and its convoluted aftermath feels like having Fleet Street line up…..

It’s time to put media ownership at the top of the agenda

With Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman’s call for a new Communications Bill establishing rules on media ownership, the vast power…..

It’s a myth that Parliament hasn’t approved the cross-party Charter

There is a strange kind of hypocrisy in the way some Fleet Street representatives use and abuse the notion of…..

The case for caps: how to make media ownership policy work

By Justin Schlosberg Last night’s Radio 4 Media Show featured an interview with shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman where she…..

Our detractors attack anything about us except our ideas

With first the Telegraph and now the Times launching substance-free wink-nudge coverage of the Media Reform Coalition, we can say…..

This press barons’ charter is neither independent nor fair

Today the rulers of Fleet Street have thumbed their nose at four months of negotiations, campaigns and public protests to…..