Media Reform Coalition

Media Reform coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.

Blogs are be exempted now – but does the new wording work?

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The Government, responding to urgent approaches from Media Reform and others, has confirmed that the cost benefits available to those who sign up for regulation will be extended to all those news bloggers who are too small to sign up. This is a major victory for small publishers and for news pluralism which Media Reform welcomes. Moreover, it has announced proposals for a … [Read more...]

DCMS stakeholder meeting report

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Last Thursday, April 11th,  the Media Reform Coalition were invited to take part in one of three stakeholder discussions at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). All of these meetings concerned the amendments to the Crime and Courts (C&C) Bill which will affect online journalists and small publishers. While they requested that anything said by participants was … [Read more...]

Results of our consultation on the new Crime and Courts Bill, updated

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Today Media Reform is releasing the results of our consultation on press regulation for bloggers. [UPDATE: these results now incorporate responses up until April 21st. The survey is now closed.] Over a period of two and a half weeks we asked bloggers and small publishers to comment on various options for amending the Crime and Courts Bill - which will support the Royal … [Read more...]

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

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At last the government is taking the flaws in its Royal Charter seriously. If only the press was doing the same. On Monday 25th March, the Justice Minister signaled he would be consulting with publishers on what to do about the now-infamous blogging problem. On Thursday 28th, we'll be meeting to discuss how this problem can be solved. The meeting is timely given events in … [Read more...]