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Cutting big media down to size: The Italian election and press plurality
DATELINE: 17/2/13
Silvio Berlusconi’s orchestration of television coverage of the campaign has only served to strengthen the determination of Italian journalists and reformers to try to force European intervention to limit the concentration of Berlusconi’s media ownership. Campaigners for European-wide reform of the ownership of radio, television and the press are urging activists to sign up to the first European Citizens’ Initiative on media pluralism details at: https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/ECI-2012-000013/public/signup.do?lang=en.
Listen to the latest podcast to hear how the election and campaigning by Berlusconi has yet again underlined the importance of the attempt to force the European Union to take action to ensure greater media diversity.
Nicholas Jones is joined by Italian journalist Tana de Zulueta, former correspondent for the Economist and Sunday Times and two leading UK campaigners for limits on media ownership, Granville Williams and Tim Gopsill from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom.
Last modified: Saturday, April 27, 2013
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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.
DATELINE: 27/4/13
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.
CPBF Annual General Meeting
DATELINE: 1/3/13
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Saturday 13 July 2013 from 10.00am
NUJ HQ, 308/312 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1.
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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Previous stories
Podcast
The British Press- The way forward?
Leveson: The Great Stitch Up?
Leveson Report: Let down by Cameron?
Leveson the press owners’ wish list
Where are all the Women?
The Paralympic Legacy
New podcast on problems facing new BBC DG
George Entwistle's burden
Leveson After Murdoch
Taking on the Media Barons
Freedom of Information at risk
Getting the message across
Reporting Dissent
Reporting the Riots
Leveson - A Chance for Change?
Jeremy Dear's Momentous Decade
How the media lost touch with work
A Wapping Exhibition
Wapping 25 years on
Whither the BBC facing a six-year licence fee freeze?
What will Murdoch’s Sky bid mean?
