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World Press Freedom Day

At the end of 2012 a total of forty nine journalists were in prison in Turkey—more even than in Iran or China. In the CPBF’s latest podcast Nicholas Jones talks to two leading British trade unionists about the need to mobilise support for freedom of expression in Turkey.

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  7/7/05: Ofcom published its new broadcasting code at the end of May. It draws together and updates the rules on taste and decency, impartiality and sponsorship that it inherited from the five regulatory bodies it replaced in December 2003. Tim Suter, the senior partner for broadcasting and standards at Ofcom said broadcasters will be allowed to combine ‘freedom of expression with editorial justification’.
  

  What that means is that they will be given greater leeway to transmit controversial scenes after the watershed ‘provided it is editorially justified and the audience given appropriate information’.

  Some aspects of the revised code have a distinctly temporary nature. For example, the new rules only apply to television and radio and not to broadband connection or mobile devices but that could change. Also product placement is still banned but Ofcom will look at the issue again later this year.

   

  Sponsorship of news and current affairs programmes is also still prohibited under the current European Union directive, Television Without Frontiers, with a new, long-delayed directive due in 2006.

   

  Any changes in its broadcasting policy proposals will also lead to changes in Ofcom’s broadcasting codes.
  

  
  
  

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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

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  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.

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  CPBF Annual General Meeting
  
  
  DATELINE: 1/3/13
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Calling Big Media to Account

DATELINE: 22/2/13

One million signatures for media pluralism - add yours here.
 
What is the European Initiative for Media Pluralism?

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom has been involved with the European Initiative for Media Pluralism (EIMP) from the start. The EIMP is a campaign initiated by around 100 civil society organisations, media, and professional bodies throughout Europe which call for legislative actions to stop big media and protect media pluralism in Europe.

The campaign has received a wide range of support in the UK. The National Union of Journalists is a partner and the TUC will be circulating the petition.Nine European countries support the EIMP so far:  Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, and the United Kingdom.

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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.

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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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» Read on

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MEDIA FOR ALL CONFERENCE

DATELINE: 26/3/10
Papers from the Media for All Conference

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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.

» Read on

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