Media Reform Coalition

A Sustainable Future for Journalism? An initial evaluation of the Cairncross Review

By Angela Phillips The Cairncross Review, which is published today, finds that: “Support for public-interest news providers is particularly urgent and justified……

Times/Sunday Times merger proposal: MRC says no…

News Corp UK and Ireland Limited – Response to invitation to comment to DCMS on a request to accept undertakings…..

BBC consultation on Over-75s licences: Government should fund its own welfare policy

The Media Reform Coalition has published its submission to the ongoing consultation on who should fund free licences for the…..

Media Democracy Festival 2019

Tickets for our annual Media Democracy Festival are now on sale! The festival brings together media democracy campaigners, journalists, researchers…..

A Public Service Internet for Europe?

By Professor Angela Phillips (Goldsmiths, University of London) The French Government announced in October that the National Assembly and Army…..

MRC responds to Ofcom’s review of media ownership rules

Ofcom’s latest report to the Secretary of State makes clear – contrary to the claims of major media corporations like…..

MRC submission to BBC Editorial Guidelines consultation

The BBC is currently consulting on its editorial guidelines, the rules that govern the Corporation’s relationship to, for example, impartiality,…..

An open letter to the Guardian Reader’s Editor

Both before and since publishing our research, which raised serious concerns about the Guardian’s coverage of antisemitism within the Labour…..

A Report on the Special Meeting on the Cairncross Review

By Isaac Costley On the 4 October the Media Reform Coalition (MRC) held a public meeting to discuss the Cairncross…..

Selling Scotland’s local television to That’s TV is a travesty

Given the Cairncross Review’s ongoing consultation into the future of ‘high quality news’ in the UK, we thought it would…..

New MRC research finds inaccuracies and distortions in media coverage of antisemitism and the Labour Party

The Media Reform Coalition has conducted in-depth research on the controversy surrounding antisemitism in the Labour Party, focusing on media…..

BBC Reform Proposals: Parliamentary launch 16 October

Following the publication of the Media Reform Coalition’s draft proposals on the future of the BBC, we have organised a…..

MRC submission to Cairncross Review

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport established the Cairncross Review to examinine the sustainability of high-quality journalism in the…..

#ChangeTheMedia: MRC welcomes Labour’s proposals for media reform

Jeremy Corbyn’s proposals for major reforms to our ‘failing’ media system, outlined in a speech to the Edinburgh Television Festival on 23 August,…..

Media coverage of media reform proposals in Spain: not a level playing field

by Joan Pedro-Carañana and Miguel Álvarez-Peralta It has been more than four years now since Podemos erupted on the political…..

News plurality and the Mirror/Express merger: real concerns remain

by Justin Schlosberg This week the Culture Secretary Matt Hancock cleared the proposed mergerbetween Trinity Mirror and Northern & Shell…..

Sign the letter to the Culture Secretary: Stop Murdoch’s Sky Takeover

You can sign here Dear The Rt Hon Matthew Hancock MP, We understand the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has…..

The FBI’s flawed list and Fleet Street’s frenzy

Next Wednesday, 9 May, in the 3rd reading of the Data Protection Bill, the House of Commons may be voting…..

MRC calls out misleading coverage and malicious attacks on left-wing Jewish voices across the national media

The Media Reform Coalition condemns the distorted and skewed coverage of anti-semitism within the Labour Party by large sections of…..

MRC publishes proposals for the radical reform of the BBC

UPDATE: MRC public meeting on reform of the BBC, 6.30 pm Tuesday 16 October in committee room 17, Parliament with Clive…..

The sorry betrayal of the victims of press abuse

Natalie Fenton is Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. Last week the culture minister Matt Hancock…..