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MRC calls out misleading coverage and malicious attacks on left-wing Jewish voices across the national media

The Media Reform Coalition condemns the distorted and skewed coverage of anti-semitism within the Labour Party by large sections of…..

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Media Democracy Festival 2018: Faking it, Breaking it, Remaking it – what’s wrong with our media and how to fix it

Timetable and free registration is here   10am-6pm Saturday 17 March, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1E7JL In the…..

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A Media Reform Agenda for 2018

A fragile government, an embittered citizenry, an emboldened opposition and a media system that’s not fit for purpose – this…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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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…..

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YouGov polling for MRC shows support for progressive policies not reflected in party choice

Labour’s economic policies more popular than the Tories’, new poll finds  As the dust from party conferences begins to settle,…..

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Should he stay or should he go? Television and online news coverage of the Labour Party in crisis

As the second Labour leadership election in less than a year gathers pace, research produced jointly by the Department of…..

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Tightening the Grip: Why the web is no haven of media plurality

By Justin Schlosberg Last week a digital market research company reported that “the top 10 publishers make up a huge…..

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The Restoration of the House of Murdoch

by Des Freedman James Murdoch, younger son of billionaire media mogul and keen tweeter Rupert Murdoch, has been appointed as…..

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How the mainstream media became a neo-Stalinist propaganda regime for wealthy neocons

Video credit: Scenes Of Reason This exclusive investigation by Nafeez Ahmed is part of our series of posts on Media Democracy which…..

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Trinity Mirror deal a serious threat to media plurality

Trinity Mirror has announced the full acquisition of regional publisher Local World, making it the biggest regional news publisher in…..

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