by barry | Dec 10, 2021 | Campaigns, censorship, freedom of information, media freedom, nuj, whistle blowing
The right to report and our right to know have been severely weakened following the High Court ruling on Friday 10 December that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US. The US won its appeal against the 4 January 2021 court ruling by...
by barry | Oct 4, 2021 | Campaigns, censorship, media ownership, nuj, whistle blowing
As Julian Assange began his fifth year sheltering in Ecuador’s London based embassy in 2017, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, according to a new investigative report by Yahoo News published on Sunday 26 September...
by admin | Jul 17, 2021 | Campaigns, censorship, Government, media freedom, nuj, Press
“Too often the state uses official secrets legislation to hide things that are embarrassing, such as the involvement of the British State in torture or rendition.” Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and co-founder of Reprieve, a human rights not-for-profit...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | nuj, Tributes
Mick Gosling a friend and comrade for many years died on 7 April. His funeral was held at St Marylebone Crematorium, in North London on 19 April. For many years we were both members of the NUJ Press and PR Branch in London which Mick chaired, and I was secretary....
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Campaigns, Government, nuj, Press, Reviews
The other day I came across a surprising quotation from Sir Alan Moses (see below in paragraph 5). He was the first head of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso), the latest incarnation of what passes for a UK press regulator. Ipso came into being...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, nuj, Public Service Broadcasting
The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) marked the launch of its Media Democracy Festival this week (see: https://www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/media-democracy-festival-2021) by publishing a new report on media ownership in the UK. It makes depressing, although predictable,...