Media Reform Coalition

Results of our consultation on the new Crime and Courts Bill, updated

Today Media Reform is releasing the results of our consultation on press regulation for bloggers. [UPDATE: these results now incorporate…..

Proposal to neuter Defamation Bill would wreck the Leveson balance

Since January we’ve been fighting against the desire of the press to get libel reform without independent regulation. But regulation…..

Letter to the Sunday Telegraph in response to an attack

On March 31 Andrew Gilligan devoted two pages in The Sunday Telegraph to attacking the campaign to reform the press……

Consultation for bloggers on the new Crime and Courts Bill

Today Media Reform is launching a consultation for small publishers, online bloggers and journalists to speak up on the new…..

Blogs & regulation: where we stand, and what must change

Media Reform has been meeting with bloggers and legal advisors to determine where they stand in relation to the new…..

The NUJ and Internaware’s advice on unpaid internships

By Carolina Are Representatives from the National Union of Journalists and Internaware took part in an advice panel on unpaid…..

Let’s ensure that cool heads prevail in the debate over blogs

At last the government is taking the flaws in its Royal Charter seriously. If only the press was doing the…..

One million signatures to protect Europe’s media from ownership concentration

By Carolina Are A group of media experts and activists met in the House of Lords last Thursday for the…..

It’s not hard to protect the small press from courts

The New Statesman has just announced it will be boycotting the new press regulator because new provisions for exemplary damages…..

A Historic Moment? Leveson and Accountability Spectacle

By Justin Schlosberg The political furore surrounding the late night-deal over press regulation announced this week would have The Thick…..

Let‘s move on from brutish journalism, and rebuild trust

by Mike Jempson If the press think they have been dealt a bad hand by the Royal Charter, they have…..

This Was Your Leveson: a reflection on recent months

So here we are. The United Kingdom will now have some kind of statute-backed independent self-regulation thing – presuming the press…..

Leveson vs the bloggers: how to make regulation work for everyone

First, they came for the tabloids; then, they came for Guido Fawkes; will they come for the bloggers next?

Victory, or ‘Leveson lite’? Our experts respond

Today the prospect of a Parliamentary game of chicken over a fair and independent regulator for the press has been…..

This semi-statutory compromise is a good first step

Today’s deal on the Leveson reforms should provide a regulator strong enough to protect the press from its own worst instincts.

A tale of two charters

Last Thursday, Cameron walked out of cross-party talks on Leveson and announced a vote on Monday on the Royal Charter…..

Honest journalists need a regulator to protect them

By Angela Phillips As four more journalists are arrested in connection with phone hacking it is worth remembering that it…..

PM’s parliamentary machismo serves only his pals in press

David Cameron has crossed the Rubicon. No, we don’t mean the Rubicon of statute he spoke of back in November…..

Job done, Lord Puttnam: the “terrible silence” is broken

By Mike Jempson In tabling his contentious amendments to the Defamation Bill, Lord Puttnam made clear that they were “designed…..

Finally, editors are breaking ranks on press reform

By Angela Phillips As cross party talks on press reform enter a critical phase, the editors are, at last, breaking…..

Rupert Murdoch: it’s about wealth and power, not profit

By David McKnight A great many books have been written about Rupert Murdoch. So why write another one? In my…..