Watch footage from our Rally for Media Reform where Green Party leader Natalie Bennett spoke about media, the demonisation of the poor, and her party's policy proposals. … [Read more...]
PRESS RELEASE: Our media – not theirs! Rally for media reform
We welcome Harriet Harman’s comments on the need to introduce some tough rules on media ownership in order to challenge the unaccountable power of our biggest media companies. Indeed, we have already tabled similar proposals both to the Leveson Inquiry and the ongoing Lords Select Committee inquiry into media plurality. We are now about to publish a new report into media … [Read more...]
Real Journalism After Leveson: how do we achieve it?
This is a talk given by Angela Phillips at an event called 'After Leveson: is citizen journalism the answer?' The event was held by Citizen Journalism Educational Trust on Saturday 8 June. Angela is our Ethics Chair and the editor-in-chief of Goldsmiths-based London news website EastLondonLines. Can we start by getting rid of the title: Citizen Journalism? Journalists are … [Read more...]
Tell the government they must reject the press barons’ charter
The government is launching a consultation on the press industry's 'rival' Royal Charter - and we need your help to defeat it. When this new, alternative Charter appeared at the end of last month, our opinion was unambiguous: we called it the "press barons' charter". The three main parties had agreed, after intense negotiation, an instrument which broadly worked; now the … [Read more...]
Report finds Leveson coverage heavy on invective, light on facts
On some days, reading press coverage of the Leveson Report and its convoluted aftermath feels like having Fleet Street line up behind one megaphone and shout in your face through it. Now a report from the Media Standards Trust indicates that this hyperbole isn't far off the mark - and reveals a near-unanimous front of negative opinion in the run-up to the report's … [Read more...]
Blogs & regulation: where we stand, and what must change
Media Reform has been meeting with bloggers and legal advisors to determine where they stand in relation to the new regulatory proposals. One thing is clear: virtually everything written about this so far in the mainstream press has been wrong (more on that later). … [Read more...]
A tale of two charters
Last Thursday, Cameron walked out of cross-party talks on Leveson and announced a vote on Monday on the Royal Charter proposal he's backing (published here). The next day, an alternative Royal Charter supported by politicians from all parties was also published online. On Monday, our representatives will have a chance to vote on both of these proposals. Hacked Off is calling … [Read more...]