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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.
Top bloggers, campaigners for greater press regulation, including Hacked Off, those opposed to it, citizen journalists, scholars, students and members of the public will be at the one-day conference..
In the wake of the outcry from Fleet Street's finest about them not wanting to be regulated by law, the debate has turned to online news and comment. Will bloggers, and sites like our, face draconian fines if lawyers are set loose on them? Or, should they be excluded from new regulation?
After the 2011 summer riots, some police and politicians, aware that young people share a lot of news using social media, urged the closing down of internet services including Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger, during times of civil unrest. Yet the post Leveson Inquiry debate seems to have by-passed discussion that the way forward may not be with "big media", whose circulations are tumbling, but with alternative reporting by the people for the people in the shape of citizen journalism.
Can newspapers recapture the vast space now occupied by a growing army of online bloggers and other members of the public publishing news, views and images unhindered by the demands of rich, powerful and partisan proprietors? Then again, maybe "big media" need not fear citizen journalism because it is a passing fad unable to uphold professional standards in an unaccountable wild west that is the World Wide Web.
These important questions and more will be discussed in a lively debate by key figures in the media industry. We hope you will be able to join us.
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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.
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Previous stories
Leveson Inquiry
It's a myth...
Papers drop veto on watchdog appointments
Press regulation - the stand off continues...
The press v parliament – papers argue their case for a new charter
Press regulation: minor bloggers excluded from exemplary damages
Press regulation: minor bloggers excluded from exemplary damages
Press regulation rules may exclude small-scale bloggers
Newspapers bid to change Leveson deal with Lords amendment
We'll believe it when we see it!
Scottish press regulation plans under threat
Press regulation talks 'break down'
The Leveson Inquiry and the raucous press
Leveson findings: press intrusion victims and MPs unite to speed up vote
Hacked Off threatens to delay government legislation
Cameron making 'backdoor deals' on press regulation
Leveson's legacy: will investigative journalists face ever greater obstacles?
Campaign rejects 'cave in' to press barons
Labour: Conservative royal charter 'dilutes' Leveson
Labour divided on response to royal charter's press 'verifier'
Lords rebellion means key part of Leveson proposals will be enacted ...
Leveson report: Lords unveil proposals in frustration at lack of progress
Evans backs statutory underpinning
New regulation body could be delayed
Leveson reforms could be made by charitable trust, says industry group
Leveson Recommendations – the Information Commissioner responds and the Press misreports
Leveson data protection plans 'could have chilling effect on journalism'
Leveson is being subverted by Cameron
Leveson report: parties discuss plan to safeguard royal charter on press
Labour asks for party leader's meeting to thrash out Leveson deal
Lord Smith, Simon Jenkins and Lord Phillips named press regulator advisers
