Monopoly ownership is bad for democracy

Category: Media Ownership

Our ethics chair, Angela Phillips, talks levies and Leveson

Angela Phillips, our ethics committee chair, has been interviewed by the free knowledge base Pod Academy to get the story…..

Press regulation is about protecting the powerless

On Thursday 22, Fraser Nelson, the editor of the Spectator, wrote a piece on the Telegraph calling on the Prime…..

Freedom of expression argument should not be misused

Padraig Reidy’s piece in the New Statesman today , claiming that self-regulation of the press is the only way to…..

The BBC: Is This the Corporation’s Hacking Crisis?

Media Reform Coalition chair Des Freedman asks how the recent crisis at Newsnight relates to the hacking scandal which precipitated…..

Who is talking about statutory CONTROL of the Press?

Mike Jempson, Director of The MediaWise Trust and Vice Chair NUJ Ethics Council, looks at recent press coverage in the…..

The Free Speech Network: Corporate media close ranks

The Free Speech Network has emerged as a megaphone in defence of the status quo of media regulation. Its arguments…..

Monopoly ownership is bad for democracy

We all know that it wasn’t just the impunity from the lack of a proper press complaints system that led…..

Communications White Paper: The Deregulation Bandwagon is on the Road

Des Freedman from Goldsmiths, University of London, responds to DCMS’ Comms Review seminar arguing that the consultation runs the risk of cementing deregulation as the preferred policy approach.

Regulation: The plans explained

Ahead of her appearance before Lord Leveson with James Curran, Angela Phillips offers an outline of the proposals for press regulation currently on the table.

Media Reform witnesses to appear at the Leveson Inquiry

James Curran and Angela Phillips will be giving testimony to Lord Leveson this Friday 13th July at 10am.

Ed Miliband and John Major call for ownership caps in line with Media Reform proposals

Yesterday Ed Miliband and John Major both called for new ownership caps to be applied to the media. John Major…..

Has Leveson thrown in the towel?

Damian Tambini wonders whether media watchers will look back on May 2012 as the month in which Leveson made two fateful moves to narrow the remit of his Inquiry

A Regulated Free Press – Compromise or Contradiction?

Angela Phillips takes on Lord Hunt over Media Reform proposals for press regulation. She calls for the establishment of a News Publishing Commission, run by representatives of civil society organisations and journalists, which “embraces the internet, protects real journalism from the pressures exerted by power and recognises that freedom of speech belongs not just to proprietors and editors but to everyone.”

James Curran’s Rally Speech

We have just heard very moving, eloquent testimonies about press abuse. However, the problem is not only that newspapers can…..

It’s not just about Murdoch…

This week we are likely to see yet more drama and revelations in the saga that is the Leveson Inquiry as the prime minister’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and former Sun editor and horse owner Rebekah Brooks take the stand. You may be starting to tire of the blanket coverage but please don’t switch off just yet. Des Freedman offers a reminder of the big issues at stake…

Murdoch and the Big Lie

Anthony Barnett argues that the malign political influence of the Murdochs poses a fundamental challenge to British democracy. This will not be dealt with by selling off the ownership of their papers, welcome though this might be, or the removal of their influence from BSkyB on the grounds that the Murdochs are not fit and proper people. The scandal has now clarified a far more breathtaking question: is Britain governed by a big lie?

Did Jeremy Hunt work for the government – or Murdoch?

Des Freedman reflects in CNN’s Edition on the staggering e-mails between Frédéric Michel, News Corp’s chief lobbyist in Europe, and James Murdoch regarding the company’s bid to take over BSkyB – “A government hell-bent on making ordinary people pay for a crisis caused by financial elites has been seen to be in cahoots with a media organization that has a long record of celebrating the debt-fueled consumer boom that so badly went wrong.”

The Future of Journalism

In this paper, just delivered to a conference in London, Angela Phillips paints a picture of a media sector transforming itself in innovative and exciting ways, held back by failing business models. Many myths are busted along the way: that journalism can be free, that user generated content brings down costs, that video is the way forward. So what’s the future? Will the survival of journalism increasingly depend on us giving away our private data? Or will we embrace the alternative: a simple online system that would allow us to pay for the content we want?

Lessons on press regulation from Ireland

Since 2008, complaints regarding Ireland’s press have been adjudicated by an independent Press Ombudsman, and a Press Council involving civil society, the National Union of Journalists and news publishers. This innovative body is an effective and credible new way to regulate the press, demonstrating that we don’t have to choose between state censorship and the kind of toothless self-regulation modeled by the now-defunct Press Complaints Commission. The following remarks were made by Séamus Dooley, Irish Secretary, NUJ at “Taking on the Media Barons” seminar at Congress House, London on March 17th 2012.

Hacking Book – How ‘serious’ media consigned Wikileaks cables to the shadows

Roy Greenslade continues his serialising of the ‘The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial’, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair. This week’s installment focuses on a chapter by Justin Schlosberg examining the coverage given to the Wikileaks US diplomatic cables (AKA Cablegate).

James Curran’s speech to the TUC conference on Media Regulation

CCMR Chair makes an impassioned plea to engage with remedy rather than just indignation. He highlights the key CCMR proposals regarding ownership thresholds and new ideas for raising and investing new funds in support of public interest journalism.

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