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