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Programme of CPBF/NUJ events at ESF
The programme of four seminars involving the Campaign and/or the NUJ includes contributions from solicitor Gareth Pierce, David Miller (who edited Tell me Lies), Aidan White (General Secretary of the IFJ) and CPBF stalwarts Granville Williams and Tom O'Malley.Visiting journalists from Russia, the Basque country, France, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland and Spain are also expected.Friday October 15, 9am-12pm
LIVING IN FEAR: Civil Liberties and the 'War on Terror'
(Seminar D23)
GARETH PIERCE, lawyer for anti-terror law detainees
ANNA POLITKOVSKA, Russian journalist famed for uniquely fair coverage of Chechnya
MARTXELO OTAMANDI, journalist from banned Basque paper Egunkaria
Saturday October 16, 9-11am
THE LIES OF WAR: exposing propaganda and fighting censorship
(Seminar W22)
DAVID MILLER, media author and commentator, editor of Tell Me Lies (2003)
AIDAN WHITE, General Secretary IFJ
Journalists from France and Italy
Saturday October 16, 4.30-6.30pm
CONCENTRATION OF THE MEDIA: the shift of power from governments to unelected chiefs of capital
(Seminar S24)
JEREMY DEAR, NUJ General Secretary
GRANVILLE WILLIAMS, Editor of Free Press, CPBF magazine
Journalists from France, Croatia, Switzerland and Italy
Sunday October 17, 9am-12pm
KEEP MEDIA FREE FROM STATE AND COMMERCIAL INTERFERENCE, defending and democratising public service broadcasting
(Seminar S23)
JIM CORRIGALL, NUJ President
TOM O'MALLEY, media academic, author of NUJ submissions on PSB
Journalists from France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland
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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
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.
DOWNLOAD FREEPRESS NOW
DATELINE: 26/3/10
Download Freepress in PDF, ePub or mobi format. Issue 194 now available.
MEDIA FOR ALL CONFERENCE
DATELINE: 26/3/10
Papers from the Media for All Conference
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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