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Biased news – do we want it here?
Open Meeting organised by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (see EVENTS for details).The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is investigating complaints from viewers about the lack of impartiality by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. The ‘due impartiality’ rule requires that the news is balanced and independent. Failure to comply can result ultimately in the station being taken off the air. However, some industry voices in Britain think it’s time the rule was relaxed. Come and hear the arguments and join in the debate.
Speakers:
Richard Tait (Former editor in chief at ITN)
Chris Shaw (Controller of news and current affairs at Channel 5)
Chair:
Julian Petley (Chair CPBF)
Monday 23 June 6.30pm
NUJ HQ, 308, Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross,
London WC1. (Nearest tube Kings Cross/Thames Link)
Admission free - collection for the CPBF.
If you want to know more about the Campaign for Press & Broadcasting Freedom please contact us at 23 Orford Road, Walthamstow, London E17 9NL or phone 020 8521 6198. email:freepress@cpbf.org.uk
Last modified: Wednesday, June 4, 2003
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Events & Announcements
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
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.
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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MEDIA FOR ALL CONFERENCE
DATELINE: 26/3/10
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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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