Media Reform Coalition

Category: Media Ownership

‘Press freedom canard’ – Professor James Curran’s letter to the Guardian

Chris Huhne (Comment, 4 November) cites the Express’s claim that “freedom of the press is cast aside after 300 years” without questioning its historical veracity. This absurd claim implies that we had a free press in 1790 when criticism of the social system was a criminal offence, and guilt or innocence could be determined solely by a judge. It suggests that we had a free press in 1850 when the stamp, advertisement and paper duties were still fixed to price newspapers beyond the reach of ordinary people. And it suggests that this embedded press freedom, hallowed by time, will come to an end with the introduction of a cheap and open system of redress for press victims, with a state-underpinned audit every few years to ensure that press self-regulation (unlike its predecessors) works.

Argentine Supreme Court challenges concentration of media ownership

On Tuesday 29 October, the Argentine Supreme Court ruled for the constitutionality of the 2009 Audiovisual Communication Services Act, against which Argentina’s largest media group, Grupo Clarín, had taken up a legal challenge. The ruling orders the implementation of the law which mandates that broadcast licences must be equally split between commercial, public and non-profit organisations. Clarín, which has long argued that the Act affected its property rights, must now immediately comply with the law (as the deadline for compliance has already passed), and divest itself of several cable TV licences.

Hacking trial: Coulson-Brooks affair assists Crown’s conspiracy claim

By Martin Hickman, 31 October 2013 The News of the World ordered the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone on the same day it sympathised with her distraught parents’ anguish, the phone hacking trial heard today. Milly went missing near her home in Walton on Thames, Surrey, in March 2002, sparking a large public police investigation and a parallel, covert one at the News of the World, the Old Bailey was told.

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‘Press freedom canard’ – Professor James Curran’s letter to the Guardian

Argentine Supreme Court challenges concentration of media ownership

Hacking trial: Coulson-Brooks affair assists Crown’s conspiracy claim

Power in the Dock

Double standards? Why unsupported claims of ‘threats to national security’ are the real threats to press freedom

Des Freedman: The Press’ Terror of Voluntary Regulation

Westminster Media Forum on Media Ownership, Plurality and Convergence

Time for government to stand firm on press regulation

Lesson From History – A Message to David Cameron

Natalie Bennett: ‘How to Tackle Press Power’

The Mail and intrusion into grief – an isolated incident?

Professor James Curran comments on the Daily Mail

The Daily Mail knows all about ‘hate’

Barack Obama takes on Rupert Murdoch, the last media baron

Miranda detention part two: who decides on the public interest?

Miranda detention, part 1: Why we should be concerned

First they came for whistleblowers, then they came for journalists

Croatia’s intriguing experiment with ‘public commissioning’

When “measuring” is a substitute for action: the government’s consultation on media ownership

A tale of two British summers: phone hacking and a royal baby

Two faces of Rupert Murdoch – here’s our comment