Media Reform Roadshow: Bristol Students Union event

Response to Harriet Harman’s speech on media ownership

On Thursday 13 June shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman used Westminster University’s annual Charles Wheeler lecture to call for laws…..

American surveillance raises tough questions for British journalists

By Laurence Dodds Over the last week, revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance programme have burst into the public sphere in a…..

Real Journalism After Leveson: how do we achieve it?

This is a talk given by Angela Phillips at an event called ‘After Leveson: is citizen journalism the answer?’ The event…..

Lucy Meadows coroner rules press played a part in her suicide

It is rare that members of the press are directly confronted with the results of their reporting decisions. But at…..

Local media plurality stinks, but democratic owners could revive it

Last week we published a guest post by Dave Boyle about community ownership of local media – and how communities…..

Local media isn’t dead – only the old ways of running it

By Dave Boyle Local media? Yesterday’s news, right? You’d be forgiven for thinking that the decline of the local press is…..

Free workshops on making community-owned media work

This is a guest post by Dave Boyle, a experienced community organiser who is trying to revitalise local media from…..

Tell the government they must reject the press barons’ charter

The government is launching a consultation on the press industry’s ‘rival’ Royal Charter – and we need your help to…..

Report finds Leveson coverage heavy on invective, light on facts

On some days, reading press coverage of the Leveson Report and its convoluted aftermath feels like having Fleet Street line up…..

It’s time to put media ownership at the top of the agenda

With Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman’s call for a new Communications Bill establishing rules on media ownership, the vast power…..

It’s a myth that Parliament hasn’t approved the cross-party Charter

There is a strange kind of hypocrisy in the way some Fleet Street representatives use and abuse the notion of…..

The case for caps: how to make media ownership policy work

By Justin Schlosberg Last night’s Radio 4 Media Show featured an interview with shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman where she…..

Our detractors attack anything about us except our ideas

With first the Telegraph and now the Times launching substance-free wink-nudge coverage of the Media Reform Coalition, we can say…..

This press barons’ charter is neither independent nor fair

Today the rulers of Fleet Street have thumbed their nose at four months of negotiations, campaigns and public protests to…..

Blogs are to be exempted now – but does the new wording work?

The Government, responding to urgent approaches from Media Reform and others, has confirmed that the cost benefits available to those…..

No, Andrew Gilligan, we do not want content regulation

Have you heard? The Media Reform Coalition is part of a plot by the European Union to take control of…..

DCMS stakeholder meeting report

Last Thursday, April 11th, the Media Reform Coalition were invited to take part in one of three stakeholder discussions at…..

Results of our consultation on the new Crime and Courts Bill, updated

Today Media Reform is releasing the results of our consultation on press regulation for bloggers. [UPDATE: these results now incorporate…..

Proposal to neuter Defamation Bill would wreck the Leveson balance

Since January we’ve been fighting against the desire of the press to get libel reform without independent regulation. But regulation…..

Letter to the Sunday Telegraph in response to an attack

On March 31 Andrew Gilligan devoted two pages in The Sunday Telegraph to attacking the campaign to reform the press……

Consultation for bloggers on the new Crime and Courts Bill

Today Media Reform is launching a consultation for small publishers, online bloggers and journalists to speak up on the new…..