Media Reform Coalition

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…..

#FreeThePress from press barons

Media Reform Coalition’s handy guide to the government’s official consultation on Section 40 and Leveson 2 Submissions can be…..

Where now for media reform?

by Damian Tambini The Leveson Catch 22: responsibility for delivering tough regulation of the press and a new framework…..

Murdoch/Sky – NOT in the public interest

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has now confirmed its agreement to buy the remainder of Sky, Britain’s largest broadcaster……

John Pilger: Media reform isn’t enough – we need a fifth estate

In a speech read out to today’s Media Democracy Festival organised by the Media Reform Coalition, the broadcaster and journalist…..

Post-truth media and the Italian referendum

Benedetta Brevini provides a much needed correction to the prevailing narrative surrounding Renzi’s defeat (re-published from OpenDemocracy.net) Recent weeks have…..

Resist. Rethink. Rebuild.

We reproduce here a powerful statement from our friends at Free Press in the US in reaction to the election…..

Support new news providers via a levy on digital giants

The Guardian published this letter on 11 November. Digital intermediaries such as Google and Facebook are not only amassing eye-watering…..