Over the last week, revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance programme have burst into the public sphere in a storm of reports, op-eds, comments and interviews. But what hasn’t gained quite so much attention is how this programme threatens the press itself. For any journalist who uses the web – and, spoiler, that’s all of them – the scale and depth of spying that is now being revealed endangers one of the most fundamental principles of journalism: the confidentiality of sources. Continue reading
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The Media Reform Coalition has organised a “Rally For Media Reform – Our Media, Not Theirs!”, which is taking place at 7pm on Monday 17 June 2013 at the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1.
This is the Media Reform Coalition’s explanation of the purpose of the rally: Continue reading
On 25 April 2013 the rulers of Fleet Street thumbed their nose at four months of negotiations, campaigns and public protests to propose a Royal Charter which suits their aims. This press barons’ charter not only replicates but actually worsens the problems they tried to get away with in February. It allows substantial influence by politicians and serious interference from the press in the appointment and recognition of the new regulator and neuters its powers to handle complaints. Continue reading
The Media Reform Coalition has launched a consultation for small publishers, online journalists and bloggers in order to provide input into the final parliamentary consideration of the Crime and Courts Bill, the legislation backing the Leveson recommendations for media self-regulation. Continue reading
The Media Reform Coalition has published a new report on media ownership and plurality laws from across the world – in the belief that Britain has something to learn from them.
The report, titled ‘The Elephant Next Door: a survey of international media ownership regulations’, summarises the broad international support that exists for plurality laws, and then examines regulations from across the world on national, local, foreign and cross-media holdings. Continue reading
On Thursday 22 November 2012, 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.
Nelson’s narrative is that journalists and politicians are at war, with the rebellious energy and noble disrespect of the press corps pitched against politicians eager to clamp down on any criticism: Continue reading
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