Big media and big money in 2017: from Disney/Murdoch to Net Neutrality
by Des Freedman Two seminal events that took place this week – the FCC’s vote to scrap net neutrality rules…..
Read more...by Des Freedman Two seminal events that took place this week – the FCC’s vote to scrap net neutrality rules…..
Read more...The Media Reform Coalition have today submitted a comprehensive response to criticisms of our evidence and arguments made by 21st…..
Read more...Media Matters for America is one of the leading media watchdogs in the US and has long played a vital…..
Read more...by Marc Darriba-Zaragoza (marc.darriba@upf.edu) and Pablo Gómez-Domínguez (pablo.gomez@upf.edu), communication researchers at Pompeu Fabra Univesity (Barcelona) The crisis in Catalonia has huge…..
Read more...Damning new research suggests the agenda influence of the Murdochs is more extensive than previously thought.. And it would be…..
Read more...By Justin Schlosberg If part two of the Fox-Sky merger review is to learn anything from recent history, it must…..
Read more...2-4pm Monday 2 October 2017 The People’s Event Marquee, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, M1 1RN Six months ago, the media landscape…..
Read more...The Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has today stated that she is ‘minded to’ refer the proposed buyout of Sky by…..
Read more...By Justin Schlosberg What do Michael Gove and Jeremy Corbyn have in common? For one thing (and perhaps the only…..
Read more...New evidence of BBC bias in its reporting of election newspaper coverage A new report suggests that the BBC is…..
Read more...by Justin Schlosberg Last night’s television debates featuring Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May marked the return of the general election…..
Read more...I’ve quit jobs in the regulated broadcast ‘impartial’ media twice in the last five years. I left Newsnight to go and…..
Read more...As election manifestos are rolled out, journalists must take care to give equal and proportionate scrutiny to new policy proposals…..
Read more...MRC is happy to host an archive of some of the submissions and reports that have been prepared in relation…..
Read more...The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, together with the Media Reform Coalition, have published a manifesto for media reform…..
Read more...The first of our election coverage alerts (with thanks to Patrick Newman from Stevenage) concerns an interview on this morning’s…..
Read more...MRC’s submission to Ofcom as part of the latter’s investigation into the proposed acquisition of Sky by 21st Century…..
Read more...by Angela Phillips The appointment of George Osborne, a Conservative MP and former chancellor of the exchequer, as editor of…..
Read more...The announcement by 21st Century Fox of its intention to buy out Sky Plc has regenerated concerns about media plurality…..
Read more...Analysis by Media Reform Coalition and 38 Degrees suggests that Murdoch’s lobbying of government intensified ahead of the recent government…..
Read more...Media Reform Coalition’s handy guide to the government’s official consultation on Section 40 and Leveson 2 Submissions can be…..
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