Have you heard? The Media Reform Coalition is part of a plot by the European Union to take control of the British press. At least that’s what seems to be implied in an article by Andrew Gilligan in this week’s Sunday Telegraph. Normally, we turn the other cheek to these kinds of attacks. But in between the shocking revelations that media academics sometimes talk to each … [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...]
Honest journalists need a regulator to protect them
By Angela Phillips As four more journalists are arrested in connection with phone hacking it is worth remembering that it is commercial pressures, not great journalism, that brought us to this place. … [Read more...]
Media Reform will lobby at Parliament this Thursday
As we enter the final frenzied week before Leveson reports, we'll be meeting in Parliament to lobby our MPs. But as well as being a chance to have your voice heard, this is a also an opportunity to be at the centre of history as it unfolds - and you're invited! … [Read more...]
Press regulation is about protecting the powerless
On Thursday 22, Fraser Nelson, the editor of the Spectator, wrote a piece on the Telegraph calling on the Prime Minister not to give in to demands for statutory regulation but to preserve Britain's "317-year tradition of press freedom". But his article fumbles the issues of power involved in the question of press regulation. … [Read more...]