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“…the cost to the taxpayer of the No 10 press office has doubled since Labour took office nearly seven years ago. The annual running costs have ballooned from £597,000 in the 1996 to 1997 period, when John Major was in power, to £1.3m last year. The PR bill reached a peak during the Iraq war and the row over the death of Dr David Kelly.”
PR Week 2 April 2004
Last modified: Sunday, June 20, 2004
Previous government policy stories
Privatising spin
Submission to the DCMS on the Review of the BBC’s Royal Charter.
Backing the BBC
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DON’T BE COWED: The BBC after Hutton
GCHQ whistleblower gagged.
A Spin Free Regime for Blair?
The end of public service information
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COMING SOON
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Submission to the Government Communications Review Group by Nicholas Jones
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom: submission to Government Communications Review Group.
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TUC Briefing on Comms Bill
Public Voice briefings on the Comms Bill
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Tessa Jowell speaks!
The Standing Committee on the Communications Bill
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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
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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Previous stories
Government Policy
Privatising spin
Submission to the DCMS on the Review of the BBC’s Royal Charter.
Backing the BBC
Where is liberalisation taking the British media?
DON’T BE COWED: The BBC after Hutton
GCHQ whistleblower gagged.
A Spin Free Regime for Blair?
The end of public service information
Hutton, Kelly and the BBC
What public policies are needed in the face of the marketisation of the audio visual sector?
Ignored at Our Peril
Free Press Editorial - Asset Stripping ITV
Labour & Television Policy
Spin In Retreat
Storms Ahead for the BBC
Look Back In Anger: The Carlton Granada merger
It’s still bad news
COMING SOON
Dear Editor.... CPBF writes to the Guardian
Television impartiality
Communications Bill - Peers line up for a show-down
Submission to the Government Communications Review Group by Nicholas Jones
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom: submission to Government Communications Review Group.
The VLV 20th spring conference: 'The Communications Bill: Content or Commerce - which matters most?'
TUC Briefing on Comms Bill
Public Voice briefings on the Comms Bill
The Re-Regulation of Broadcasting, or The Mill Owners' Triumph
Communications Bill receives third reading.
Tessa Jowell speaks!
The Standing Committee on the Communications Bill
