Category: Press Ethics and Regulation

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…..

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Media Democracy Festival 2019

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

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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…..

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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…..

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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,…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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#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,…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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Media Democracy Festival 2018: Faking it, Breaking it, Remaking it – what’s wrong with our media and how to fix it

Timetable and free registration is here   10am-6pm Saturday 17 March, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1E7JL In the…..

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It’s official: Fox acquisition of Sky will give Murdoch ‘too much influence over public opinion’

The Media Reform Coalition has long raised concerns about the risks posed by the Fox-Sky merger for media plurality. As…..

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