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Campaign welcomes new BBC chair
The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom has welcomed the appointment of former Channel 4 boss Michael Grade, as the chair of the BBC.“He has a good track record on campaigning against censorship and on issues around freedom of expression” said Granville Williams, editor of the Campaign’s journal Free Press. “Michael Grade has worked both for the BBC and in the commercial sector and understands about broadcasting and journalism. He was also the unanimous choice of the independent scrutiny panel, chaired by Dame Rennie Fritchie.”
He beat off competition from figures including Baroness Young, David Dimbleby and Lord Watson for the £80,000 a year post.
He will take up his new post on 17 May.
The vacancy arose when Gavyn Davies quit in the wake of the Hutton inquiry
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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.
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
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