by barry | Feb 22, 2024 | Campaigns, media freedom, Press
Journalism and the right to protect sources from state snooping, face another test on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 February when journalists and NUJ members Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey will attend an open court hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal in...
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 | 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 | Apr 1, 2023 | BBC, Government, media ownership, nuj, Press, Public Service Broadcasting
This week saw the publication of the government’s long awaited draft Media Bill. Such main- stream media attention it’s received highlights the proposed repeal of Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. This piece of legislation is based on the Leveson...
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 | Jan 24, 2023 | Campaigns, censorship, international, media freedom, Press, whistle blowing
Julian Assange still awaits his legal appeal against extradition to the United States to face charges under the 1917 Espionage Act. He has already spent nearly four years languishing in London’s high security Belmarsh Prison. Meanwhile, leading free press and human...