Natalie Fenton Lurking in this week's Queen’s Speech were five bills that could impact upon news organisations and journalists: the draft Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill; the Online Safety Bill; the Media Bill; the Data Reform Bill and the National Security Bill. Over the coming weeks, MRC will be interrogating all of them. But here, we focus on one small … [Read more...]
Media Influence Matrix UK report: Government, Politics and Regulation
JUST OUT! The Media Reform Coalition is working with researchers from the Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) at Central European University to investigate the influence of shifts in policy, funding, and technology on contemporary journalism. This is part of the international Media Influence Matrix project, coordinated by CMDS, which has so far produced 19 reports … [Read more...]
IMPRESS to seek recognition under the Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press
Independent press regulation takes a major step forward today with the announcement that IMPRESS will seek recognition under the Royal Charter. IMPRESS: The Independent Monitor for the Press announces today that it is preparing to seek recognition under the Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press. The Charter gives effect to the principles of independent and effective … [Read more...]
Media policy, power and politics and the Election
by Natalie Fenton Maybe it should come as no surprise that in the aftermath of the Hacking scandal and the Leveson enquiry that followed media policy was an election issue. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green party pledged substantive media reforms in their election manifestos. Not that you would have known it from the media. The Loughborough study noted that the … [Read more...]