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Media Democracy Festival 2021

January 30, 2021 By Media Reform Coalition

We're thrilled to announce the schedule for our forthcoming Media Democracy Festival, a week-long celebration of independent media voices and analysis of why our current media system is not fit for purpose. We kick off with a keynote and Q&A from former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on 'A Free Media for a Free Society' - 6pm, Sunday 14 March Do Black Lives Matter … [Read more...]

Report: Who Owns the UK Media?

March 12, 2019 By Media Reform Coalition

We produced our first comprehensive report on media ownership in the UK back in 2015 when we argued concentrated ownership was a significant problem for any modern democracy. In 2019, we produced an updated version that suggests that, not only does concentrated ownership persist but that the problem may be getting worse. This report shows that just three companies (News … [Read more...]

Facebook v Australia: Murdoch wins

February 20, 2021 By Media Reform Coalition Leave a Comment

by Benedetta Brevini The day after Facebook, the Digital Lord, banned Australian news from its platform, the world is still watching. Of course, it’s watching. After two decades of absence of regulation, the Digital Lords of the Western world such as Google and Facebook are finally under pressure. The fight did not start in Australia and it is already global: from the United … [Read more...]

A Secret Australia: Why Julian Assange’s own country ignored him and WikiLeaks’ exposés

December 2, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

by Benedetta Brevini As a journalist, scholar and media reformer, I have been following the activities of WikiLeaks for over a decade, assessing the disrupting force of new radical platforms for disclosure. WikiLeaks is a crucial example of a digital platform that exposes the contradictions of the internet as a tool for openness and secrecy, freedom and surveillance, free … [Read more...]

Media Reform Coalition: Campaign Co-ordinator for Future of Public Media Project

October 31, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

This position is with the Media Reform Coalition (MRC) that is housed within Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Reporting to the Chair of the Media Reform Coalition (Professor Natalie Fenton), the role holder will be expected to lead in the co-ordination of a … [Read more...]

Decriminalising TV licence fee evasion will cut BBC funding without helping the poorest

October 5, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

by Leo Watkins On 9 December last year, mere days before the General Election, Boris Johnson was having a bad news day. He was televised in the morning trying to avoid being confronted by a reporter’s evidence of a young boy sleeping on the floor of an NHS hospital (with the insinuation being that he was being denied proper medical care). Later in the day, his health … [Read more...]

The silence around Assange

September 28, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

by Jacob Ecclestone and Bernie Corbett There is a scandal and a crisis in British journalism. For the past three weeks or so a crucial extradition hearing has been taking place in the Central Criminal Court in London. You won’t know about it if you rely for your news on the established newspapers, the BBC or ITV or Channel 4. They have the resources to report it but they … [Read more...]

TV Craft Awards: lifting the lid on structural racism

September 1, 2020 By Media Reform Coalition

By a member of BECTU “Did no-one look around and stop and ask: ‘why are we so white?’” In part of David Olusoga’s welcome and powerful MacTaggart Lecture he referred to the stark division between the 2020 BAFTA Television Awards and their companion, the Craft Awards. “The Television Awards for 2020 recognised our many successful diverse actors and presenters. … [Read more...]

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