MRC responds to Ofcom’s review of media ownership rules

If the Sun hates attacks on press freedom, how must it despise itself!

by Des Freedman, 13 February 2012

Media Reform responds to arrests at The Sun

News Release, 12 February 2012 – As News Corp executives attempt to shift the blame to individual journalists, Media Reform argues that: ETHICAL JOURNALISM AND MEDIA PLURALISM REQUIRE OWNERSHIP THRESHOLDS AND A RIGHT OF REPLY

Media Reform letter published in The Guardian

A letter highlighting the CCMR proposals was published in The Guardian this week signed by James Curran, Des Freedman, Natalie Fenton, Angela Phillips, Julian Petley, Jonathan Hardy and Damian Tambini.

Why Media Reform Matters

A public discussion at the Bank of Ideas with Dave Boyle (Cooperatives UK), Richard Peppiatt (former tabloid hack now media activist), and Des Freedman and Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths/Media Reform).

Watch the media reform debate

View footage from our recent Ethics panel at the British Academy.

Mutualising the media: the answer to UK press ownership?

Who owns the news has been always been a more topical issue than how it is owned, but there seems…..

Rehabilitating Britain’s Media

The power between the press and the people needs to be re-balanced with a new statutory right of reply at…..

Reforming the media after the phone hacking scandal: a Red Pepper roundtable

If powerful interests are to be prevented from closing down the movement for wholesale reform of the media in the…..

Just how much worse is Hackgate going to get?

Tim Crook reflects on the latest allegations concerning extensive use of surveillance by News of the World reporters.

Press independence and the Leveson Inquiry

The post hackgate period as seen as a clamour from various sectors of the press warning of the threat to press freedom posed by the Leveson Inquiry.

Interrogating contemporary news: asking the right questions

Natalie Fenton on news, plurality and the public interest

The Leveson Inquiry – should we care?

Des Freedman on why the Leveson Inquiry matters for media activists

Hackgate and the Communications Review – Two separate planets?

Des Freedman, senior lecturer at Goldsmiths and CCMR co-founder argues that the News of the World hacking scandal presents an unparalelled opportunity to radically restructure the British media.