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The future of PSB - postponed
DATELINE: 21/10/08
The Campaign and the South East Region TUC's Creative and Leisure Industries Committee are organising a joint conference on 'The Future of Public Service Broadcasting'. The conference has now been postponed until the new year. Please check here for updates. Admission will be free but please register.
The conference will be exploring the future of public service broadcasting, national, regional and international campaigning for its support: it's funding; its challenges; its future; Speakers will include leading trade unionist in broadcasting, journalism, academics, campaigners and politicians. (Speakers to be confirmed)
There will be workshops on:
* Funding off Public Service Broadcasting
* Equal Opportunities and Diversity
* International Public Services Broadcasting
* Role of OFCOM
* Use of Public Service Broadcasting in Education
* Industrial Relations and casualisation of the industry
* Training and skills in broadcasting
* The challenge of unregulated internet televisionThe conference will be a campaigning and capacity building conference. It is aimed at trade unionist in the media sector, campaigners in the media, trade unionist who use the public service broadcasting, viewer groups, students of the media and academics.
Please register - email or telephone:
sertucevents@tuc.org.uk or 020 7467 1220
Last modified: Monday, November 10, 2008
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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.
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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.
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Make a note in your diary
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Previous stories
Public Service Broadcasting
Opting Out
Citizenship and Public Service Broadcasting
How do Ofcom and the BBC Trust see their Roles?
Commission recommends new TV channel for Scotland
Ofcom's 'smash and grab' raid on the BBC licence fee
World Service threatened
Wales, Devolution and Democracy
CPBF responds to Ofcom public service review
NUJ slams 'simplistic' top-slicing arguments
PSB on ITV - No thanks!
BBC unions ballot for action on jobs
Crisis looms in kids' telly
Scottish Broadcasting Commission wants to hear your views
Begin the fight back: How corporate strategists neutered the BBC
Joint statement from the BBC, BECTU, the NUJ and UNITE
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