The Media Reform Coalition has launched a petition for a People's BBC - sign here! The BBC is under attack. A decade of funding cuts, increasing government interference and commercial pressures are making it less and less able fulfil its public mission. We urgently need a BBC that can hold the powerful to account, and that can help a divided nation understand each … [Read more...]
Manifesto for a People’s Media
The 2020s are set to be a decade of huge challenges, and much of the UK's media is unable to support the transformations we need. We urgently need media which is owned by us, accountable to us, where we all get to play a part in creating it: we need to build a media commons. What this could mean is explored in our Manifesto for a People's Media, published as part of the MRC's … [Read more...]
BBC and Beyond Town Hall events
Upcoming Events Reimagining Public Service Media in Wales - 11am BST, Thursday July 1st Can public media be antiracist? - 6pm BST, Weds July 14th Past events 'Scottish media, for everyone?' June 28th 2021, jointly organised with Pass the Mic. With Talat Yaqoob, Pass the Mic; Tasnim Nazeer, freelance journalist; Marcus Ryder, Lenny Henry Centre for Media … [Read more...]