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Co-ordinating Committee for Media Reform call for change
Co-ordinating Committee for Media Reform
DATELINE: 25/1/12
Media advocacy and campaign groups call today for: A statutory right of reply; A public interest test for companies that secure 15% of any media market; Stronger cross ownership rules: Profit levies on communications companies and tax incentives to help sustain public interest news.
Professor James Curran, chair of Media Reform, a new organisation established to coordinate civil society responses to the Leveson Enquiry and the Communications review, said today: "A high degree of media concentration has limited media pluralism and deterred reform of the press by cowed politicians. This has perpetuated a culture of impunity in which press self-regulation has failed, and a cowboy spirit has prevailed that has given rise to the illegal hacking of voicemails. If we are to tackle these problems and come up with effective solutions, we have to change the basis on which the media are organised, regulated and funded."
The Coordinating Committee for Media Reform proposals include:
• A statutory right of reply
• A new News Publishing Commission composed of members of the public, ordinary working journalists and editors to promote press freedom and foster responsible behaviour
• More robust systems of transparency governing the interaction between the news media and their sources
• Proposals for a public interest test for companies that secure a 15% share or more of any media market
• Stronger cross-ownership rules and clear upper ceilings on the share across media markets
• A public interest test on companies that secure 15% or more of any media market
• The introduction of levies on turnover of profitable communications companies and tax incentives to help sustain new and existing public-service oriented news projects.Partner organisations include Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, Community Media Association, MediaWise, Cooperatives UK, MeccSSA Policy Group, Red Pepper, Open Society Foundation and Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
For more information or for interviews with Media Reform or any of our partners please contact Justin Schlosberg on 07505053553, email info@mediareform.org.uk
www.mediareform.org.uk
Last modified: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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