by barry | Oct 17, 2023 | BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, media plurality, Press, Public Service Broadcasting, Reviews
The Media Reform Coalition has published a new edition of its 2021 media ownership report which featured updated data and analysis from the 2019 and 2015 reports https://www.mediareform.org.uk/resources/reports. It demonstrated the continuing concentration of media...
by barry | Oct 1, 2023 | Campaigns, Climate Change, Government
In the run up to the Conservative party conference in Blackpool this week, we have been bombarded with a number of policies aimed at diverting attention away from the government’s failed economic policies and the cost of living crisis by offering a number of...
by barry | Jul 15, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
At a recent cross party meeting in parliament, David Davis MP for Haltemprice and Howden and former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union described the treatment of journalist Julian Assange as an “atrocious breach of natural justice”. He also...
by barry | Jun 11, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, media freedom, whistle blowing
The first week in June marked the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first of Edward Snowden’s sensational revelations, when The Guardian published its first exclusive based on Snowden’s leaks, revealing a secret court order showing that the US...
by barry | Feb 25, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, Government, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
Recent press reports reveal that Home Secretary Suella Braverman has ordered the controversial Bill be reviewed because of concerns about its impact on journalism https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/national-security-bill-journalists-public-interest-defence/ . This...
by barry | Feb 12, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, Government, media freedom, whistle blowing
Last week at Prime Minister’s Question Time, Labour MP for Streatham in south London, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, asked the Prime Minister to come clean on how much public money has been spent on secretive Whitehall ‘counter disinformation units’...
