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Conference – After Leveson citizen journalism?
DATELINE: 19/5/13
Are you available to come to our special media conference entitled, After Leveson, is Citizen Journalism the Answer? on Saturday 8 June? Please publicise through your network: http://www.the-latest.com/after-leveson-citizen-journalism-answer?. We're pitching it as follows: The event, at the London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB, is being hosted by the Citizen journalism Educational Trust and the-Latest.Com, and builds on the success of their Media and the Riots conference that brought young people and journalists face to face. The Leveson Inquiry accepted the conference report as evidence.
It's a myth...
DATELINE: 11/5/13
There is a strange kind of hypocrisy in the way some Fleet Street representatives use and abuse the notion of Parliamentary approval. As it happens, the claim that the cross-party Royal Charter – which will now be delayed beyond May 15 - has not been approved by Parliament is misleading at best.
Papers drop veto on watchdog appointments
DATELINE: 10/5/13
Newspaper owners have backed down on demands to have a veto over the board members of any new press regulator. A statement published on behalf of major publishers said appointments should instead be made by "consensus". Some owners wanted the power to block those they saw as hostile to the press.
Press regulation - the stand off continues...
DATELINE: 10/5/13
The Press Standards Board of Finance Limited (Pressbof) has submitted to the Privy Council Office a petition for a Royal Charter. As with all Charter petitions, the relevant Government department, in this case the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), will be considering this Charter, drawing in views from other Government departments as required.
We'll believe it when we see it!
DATELINE: 19/3/13
Statement from the CPBF, March 19 2013
The legal basis for a new system of press regulation gives the national press a chance to commit themselves to a means of properly policing their own behaviour. The CPBF does not have great confidence that they will take this opportunity seriously.
The way it was introduced, by a series of surprise moves in Parliament, appears to have thrown the editors into disarray. They are now trying to decide whether to co-operate or to revert to type and refuse.
The new regulator itself is being set up by the office of the Press Complaints Commission. If the bigger, right-wing papers decide to boycott it there will be utter chaos.
UK launch of EU media campaign
DATELINE: 13/3/13
The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
Other recent stories
The Leveson Inquiry and the raucous press
Berlusconi brothers get jail terms in Il Giornale case
European citizens' media pluralism initiative launched
The Prisoner of Fleet Street
Leveson reports
Standing up for citizens' complaints
Phone-hacking police charge Rebekah Brooks
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Notices
Notices
World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
The World Press Freedom Day rally is being staged by the National Union of Journalists at the NUJ head office, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1 on Thursday May 2, 6pm-8pm.
DATELINE: 27/4/13
UK launch of EU media campaign
DATELINE: 13/3/13The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
CPBF Annual General Meeting
DATELINE: 1/3/13
Make a note in your diary
Saturday 13 July 2013 from 10.00am
NUJ HQ, 308/312 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1.
Leveson, media ownership, CPBF future work.
DOWNLOAD FREEPRESS NOW
DATELINE: 26/3/10
Download Freepress in PDF, ePub or mobi format. Issue 194 now available.
MEDIA FOR ALL CONFERENCE
DATELINE: 26/3/10
Papers from the Media for All Conference
MEDIA MANIFESTO
DATELINE: 26/3/10
The media’s job is to inform and entertain us but we rely on them too to tell us what our rulers and representatives are up to. In the run-up to the Iraq war the government used spin and disinformation in the media to create panic and mislead people. The truth is coming out now, but we need stronger, more independent media to be able to scrutinise governments and make informed choices.
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Random Links
Links
committee to protect journalists
Brass Check TV
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
Liberty's 'yourrights' online provides information and access to advice on human rights issues such as free expression and privacy as well as information on the specific rights of various individuals and groups.
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
red pepper - campaigning journal & web site
media alliance (US)
Democracy Fail
arab media watch
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
International News Safety Institute
new internationalist online
michael moore's site
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
International Women's Media Foundation - US based organisation aimed at increasing women's participation in the media.
international federation of journalists
writers' guild of great britain
wordpower: books to change our world
community media association
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
notwar.net - quirky international peace group with details of hundreds of campaigning peace groups
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
ePolitix - get your own e-mail news feed
subscribe to 'the weekly spin'
signs of the times
indymedia: independent media
bad subjects: political education for everyday life - from the University of California at Berkeley
RAM (Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media) project bulletin
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
save welsh tv
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
One World
world association of community radio broadcasters
media workers against the war
world association for christian communication (WACC)
Index on Censorship - international campaign for free expression, based on publication and website
Disinformation - US site combining analysis, rumour, paranoia and alternative lifestyles.
bectu (broadcast, entertainment, cinematograph and theatre union)
global journalism review
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
al jazeera
corporation watch (US)
NUJ New Media industrial council
NUJ Brussels branch
national union of journalists (UK & Ireland)
US Free Press
Ofcom website - the uk's broadcasting and telecoms regulator
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
