Natalie Bennett: we must go back to Leveson for true media reform

Blogs & regulation: where we stand, and what must change

Media Reform has been meeting with bloggers and legal advisors to determine where they stand in relation to the new…..

The NUJ and Internaware’s advice on unpaid internships

By Carolina Are Representatives from the National Union of Journalists and Internaware took part in an advice panel on unpaid…..

Let’s ensure that cool heads prevail in the debate over blogs

At last the government is taking the flaws in its Royal Charter seriously. If only the press was doing the…..

One million signatures to protect Europe’s media from ownership concentration

By Carolina Are A group of media experts and activists met in the House of Lords last Thursday for the…..

It’s not hard to protect the small press from courts

The New Statesman has just announced it will be boycotting the new press regulator because new provisions for exemplary damages…..

A Historic Moment? Leveson and Accountability Spectacle

By Justin Schlosberg The political furore surrounding the late night-deal over press regulation announced this week would have The Thick…..

Let‘s move on from brutish journalism, and rebuild trust

by Mike Jempson If the press think they have been dealt a bad hand by the Royal Charter, they have…..

This Was Your Leveson: a reflection on recent months

So here we are. The United Kingdom will now have some kind of statute-backed independent self-regulation thing – presuming the press…..

Leveson vs the bloggers: how to make regulation work for everyone

First, they came for the tabloids; then, they came for Guido Fawkes; will they come for the bloggers next?

Victory, or ‘Leveson lite’? Our experts respond

Today the prospect of a Parliamentary game of chicken over a fair and independent regulator for the press has been…..

This semi-statutory compromise is a good first step

Today’s deal on the Leveson reforms should provide a regulator strong enough to protect the press from its own worst instincts.

A tale of two charters

Last Thursday, Cameron walked out of cross-party talks on Leveson and announced a vote on Monday on the Royal Charter…..

Honest journalists need a regulator to protect them

By Angela Phillips As four more journalists are arrested in connection with phone hacking it is worth remembering that it…..

PM’s parliamentary machismo serves only his pals in press

David Cameron has crossed the Rubicon. No, we don’t mean the Rubicon of statute he spoke of back in November…..

Job done, Lord Puttnam: the “terrible silence” is broken

By Mike Jempson In tabling his contentious amendments to the Defamation Bill, Lord Puttnam made clear that they were “designed…..

Finally, editors are breaking ranks on press reform

By Angela Phillips As cross party talks on press reform enter a critical phase, the editors are, at last, breaking…..

Rupert Murdoch: it’s about wealth and power, not profit

By David McKnight A great many books have been written about Rupert Murdoch. So why write another one? In my…..

Press gobbles up the carrots but runs away from the sticks

Press gobbles up the carrots but runs away from the sticks The Defamation Bill is in danger of being lost……

Left, right or nowhere? Building a broad-based coalition for media reform

Deborah Grayson is the Campaigns Coordinator for the Media Reform Coalition. She delivered the following paper at Media Policy Post-Leveson:…..

Back to Methusalah…with the Black/Hunt gang

Mike Jempson, Director of MediaWise considers the latest developments in press regulation. A free (and pluralist) press is one of…..

The seven capital sins of corporate-owned media: how ownership concentration curtails media freedoms in Europe

By Benedetta Brevini 2 February 2013 For the first time since the adoption of the Charter of Fundamental rights, which…..