Media Reform Coalition

Westminster Media Forum on Media Ownership, Plurality and Convergence

When: 21 November 2013, 08:30 – 13:00 Where: Johnnie Walker Room, The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR…..

Time for government to stand firm on press regulation

Written by Julian Petley, Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University. Republished from The Conversation. On Monday evening, the BBC’s…..

Lesson From History – A Message to David Cameron

Written by Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster. Reposted with kind permission from Huff Post UK……

Natalie Bennett: ‘How to Tackle Press Power’

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party. She was the editor of The Guardian Weekly between 2007 and 2012 and has previously…..

The Mail and intrusion into grief – an isolated incident?

Written by Martin Moore. Reposted with kind permission from the Media Standards Trust. When a Mail on Sunday journalist intruded on…..

Professor James Curran comments on the Daily Mail

Letter to the Evening Standard The Daily Mail’s attack on Ed Miliband’s father as ‘the man who hated Britain’ because…..

The Daily Mail knows all about ‘hate’

Des Freedman argues for a full and open debate about concentrated media power. In light of the forthcoming consideration by the…..

Barack Obama takes on Rupert Murdoch, the last media baron

This article originally appeared at the Daily Mirror. President Obama has had enough of Rupert Murdoch. His target is the…..

Miranda detention part two: who decides on the public interest?

Yesterday we wrote about why the detention of David Miranda under anti-terror legislation was so different from the arrest of…..

Miranda detention, part 1: Why we should be concerned

The detention of a journalist under something called the Terrorism Act should raise eyebrows whatever the situation. It does not…..

First they came for whistleblowers, then they came for journalists

By Justin Schlosberg This article originally appeared at the Huffington Post and is reposted here with their kind permission. The…..

Croatia’s intriguing experiment with ‘public commissioning’

This article was written by Dan Hind and originally published on Al Jazeera. It is reposted here with kind permission. In 2010…..

When “measuring” is a substitute for action: the government’s consultation on media ownership

By Des Freedman Right in the middle of the summer, and without much fanfare, the Department for Culture, Media and…..

A tale of two British summers: phone hacking and a royal baby

This post by Des Freedman was originally published at Open Democracy, and is reprinted with their kind permission. The royal…..

Two faces of Rupert Murdoch – here’s our comment

Remember our post on the two faces of Rupert Murdoch, presented without comment, in which we compared the mogul’s letter…..

Professor James Curran: “We want to shrink the media moguls”

This post was originally written by Joe Sandler Clarke at the Huffington Post, and is reprinted with their kind permission. Two more…..

Two faces of Rupert Murdoch, presented without comment

Then: “I was shocked and appalled by recent allegations concerning the News of the World and I am deeply sorry…..

NUJ General Secretary: media freedom hangs on a very thin thread

“Whether the power’s being wielded by the state or a multi-national corporation, media freedom can hang on a very thin…..

Turkey and the truth about media ownership concentration

Murat Akser, Chair of the New Media Department at Istanbul’s Kadir Has University, talks about media ownership concentration in Turkey and the Taksim Square protests. Footage and editing by documentary film maker Lee Salter.

Transsexual life and death in the press

“Trans coverage is a microcosm of press behaviour.” Here’s Helen Belcher of Trans Media Watch, talking about transsexual life and…..

If you want to be a big player in government, you have to flirt with Rupert’s henchmen and women

“If there is one lesson about British politics we learned from the Leveson Inquiry, it is that if you want…..