This is the first section of Media Reform's recommendations. The second section is on Public Interest; the third is on Funding Models.
The News Publishing Commission
A News
This is the second section of Media Reform's recommendations. The first section is on Ethics; the third is on Funding Models.
23. Strong cross-ownership rules and clear upper
The owners and editors of the popular press and their apologists regard their critics as hypocrites who like to affect modishly leftish poses while secretly relishing the salacious fare they
This the third section of Media Reform's recommendations. The first section is on Ethics; the second is on Public Interest.
Funding the news we need
29. Extend VAT
The CCMR paper rightly highlights the importance of media plurality. Plurality contributes to a vibrant democratic discourse and acts as a safeguard against any one entity controlling the news agenda.
Campaigners and academics have been deploring the increasing commercialisation and the narrowing of UK press and television for many years. So the papers from CCMR, arguing for the democratisation of
Some of the recommendations for media reform by the Co-ordinating Committee are the best I have seen. At least they work with the grain of journalism as it is conducted.
The paper makes a set of sound (and in some cases innovative) policy proposals that are in line with arguments about the media and the public interest raised in some
The damning evidence presented by witnesses to the Leveson Inquiry may make the term ethical journalism seem an oxymoron. Yet most journalists get most of it right, most of the
This report beautifully unfolds a very simple story. This is the story of a broadcasting system, within the particular national broadcasting ecology of the United Kingdom. The story tells of
