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

A Media Reform Agenda for 2018

A fragile government, an embittered citizenry, an emboldened opposition and a media system that’s not fit for purpose – this…..

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…..

MRC responds to Fox

The Media Reform Coalition have today submitted a comprehensive response to criticisms of our evidence and arguments made by 21st…..

Murdoch-operated site backs down from Fox boycott! The latest from Media Matters

Media Matters for America is one of the leading media watchdogs in the US and has long played a vital…..

Article 155 and the attack on public media professionals in Catalonia

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…..

Murdoch and agenda power: it’s even worse than we thought

Damning new research suggests the agenda influence of the Murdochs is more extensive than previously thought.. And it would be…..

Why the Leveson Inquiry must be allowed to finish its work

By Justin Schlosberg If part two of the Fox-Sky merger review is to learn anything from recent history, it must…..

A Media for the Many – Not the Few

2-4pm Monday 2 October 2017 The People’s Event Marquee, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, M1 1RN Six months ago, the media landscape…..

MRC statement in response to announcement on Fox/Sky merger review

The Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has today stated that she is ‘minded to’ refer the proposed buyout of Sky by…..

Do the voices of mainstream media still dominate public conversation? Maybe

By Justin Schlosberg What do Michael Gove and Jeremy Corbyn have in common? For one thing (and perhaps the only…..

What the BBC has to say about the papers

New evidence of BBC bias in its reporting of election newspaper coverage A new report suggests that the BBC is…..

Election coverage alert 30 May: Distorted debates, vacuous interviewing techniques and more fake news in the Telegraph

by Justin Schlosberg Last night’s television debates featuring Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May marked the return of the general election…..

Paul Mason: Reflections on Impartiality

I’ve quit jobs in the regulated broadcast ‘impartial’ media twice in the last five years. I left Newsnight to go and…..

Election coverage alert 15 May

As election manifestos are rolled out, journalists must take care to give equal and proportionate scrutiny to new policy proposals…..

Fox/Sky takeover: archive of civil society submissions

MRC is happy to host an archive of some of the submissions and reports that have been prepared in relation…..

A Manifesto for Media Reform

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, together with the Media Reform Coalition, have published a manifesto for media reform…..

Election coverage alert: Today Programme 10 May

The first of our election coverage alerts (with thanks to Patrick Newman from Stevenage) concerns an interview on this morning’s…..

A disaster for media plurality: the 21st Century Fox bid for Sky

MRC’s submission to Ofcom as part of the latter’s investigation into the proposed acquisition of Sky by 21st Century…..

George Osborne, the Evening Standard and the Conservative media establishment

by Angela Phillips The appointment of George Osborne, a Conservative MP and former chancellor of the exchequer, as editor of…..

Consolidating Control: the Fox/Sky merger and plurality in the UK

The announcement by 21st Century Fox of its intention to buy out Sky Plc has regenerated concerns about media plurality…..

Murdoch’s lobbying efforts are increasing, new analysis finds

Analysis by Media Reform Coalition and 38 Degrees suggests that Murdoch’s lobbying of government intensified ahead of the recent government…..