Last week we published a guest post by Dave Boyle about community ownership of local media - and how communities can take back their newspapers from the giant conglomerates which have so comprehensively abandoned them. Boyle is running a series of free workshops across the country aimed at helping people make this vision a reality. But although Boyle puts financial … [Read more...]
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 the bottom up. He believes that community ownership of local media groups can make them both profitable and accountable. We think his project is greatly welcome in these pessimistic times and we want to give it a platform. Media Reform has talked about the … [Read more...]
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 was pressed by Steve Hewlett on the burgeoning issue of what to do about media plurality. In response, she reiterated Labour’s support for a system of thresholds to be applied to media ownership – particularly in respect of newspapers – arguing … [Read more...]