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New Zealand media regulation reforms
DATELINE: 22/5/13
gazetteNew Zealand has been looking at new proposals for media regulation which address the digital revolution … Unlike Australia and the UK, the NZ Law Commission's media reform plans have met with minimal resistance … Barrister Steven Price investigates...The New Zealand Law Commission has been drawing up plans for some urban renewal in the media law landscape.
Met police defend decision not to pursue leaks
DATELINE: 21/5/13
Scotland Yard on Monday defended a decision it made not to take action over intelligence it received alleging leaks of internal secrets from its "inner sanctum", potentially to the News of the World (NoW). The intelligence is contained in a Met document generated in April 2006 at a time when the then commissioner, Sir Ian Blair (now Lord Blair), faced internal ructions and a hostile press.
Conference – After Leveson citizen journalism?
DATELINE: 19/5/13
Are you available to come to our special media conference entitled, After Leveson, is Citizen Journalism the Answer? on Saturday 8 June? Please publicise through your network: http://www.the-latest.com/after-leveson-citizen-journalism-answer?. We're pitching it as follows: The event, at the London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB, is being hosted by the Citizen journalism Educational Trust and the-Latest.Com, and builds on the success of their Media and the Riots conference that brought young people and journalists face to face. The Leveson Inquiry accepted the conference report as evidence.
It's a myth...
DATELINE: 11/5/13
There is a strange kind of hypocrisy in the way some Fleet Street representatives use and abuse the notion of Parliamentary approval. As it happens, the claim that the cross-party Royal Charter – which will now be delayed beyond May 15 - has not been approved by Parliament is misleading at best.
Papers drop veto on watchdog appointments
DATELINE: 10/5/13
Newspaper owners have backed down on demands to have a veto over the board members of any new press regulator. A statement published on behalf of major publishers said appointments should instead be made by "consensus". Some owners wanted the power to block those they saw as hostile to the press.
Press regulation - the stand off continues...
DATELINE: 10/5/13
The Press Standards Board of Finance Limited (Pressbof) has submitted to the Privy Council Office a petition for a Royal Charter. As with all Charter petitions, the relevant Government department, in this case the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), will be considering this Charter, drawing in views from other Government departments as required.
Other recent stories
We'll believe it when we see it!
UK launch of EU media campaign
The Leveson Inquiry and the raucous press
Berlusconi brothers get jail terms in Il Giornale case
European citizens' media pluralism initiative launched
The Prisoner of Fleet Street
Leveson reports
Standing up for citizens' complaints
Phone-hacking police charge Rebekah Brooks
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Notices
Notices
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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Random Links
Links
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
Liberty's 'yourrights' online provides information and access to advice on human rights issues such as free expression and privacy as well as information on the specific rights of various individuals and groups.
columbia journalism review
International Network for Cultural Diversity
European Institute for the Media
world commission on the social dimension of globalisation (ilo)
global village cat - access TV worldwide
ideosphere: non-profit media consultancy (sweden)
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
Middle East Media Guide
arab media watch
US Free Press
media watch mailing list
Index on Censorship - international campaign for free expression, based on publication and website
media alliance (US)
information clearing house
presswise
NUJ New Media industrial council
Schnews - weekly newsletter from: Justice? Brighton's Direct Action Collective
New book: Creating Fear - News and the construction of crisis, David L. Altheide
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
pr watch's 'spin of the day'
sp media watch
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
alter-eu - The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
world association of community radio broadcasters
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
world association for christian communication (WACC)
indymedia: independent media
working for change (US)
europa: 'an internet site covering Europe as a common area of freedom, security and justice' - web site of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs
Democracy Fail
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
british journalism review
Exiled Journalists Network
red pepper - campaigning journal & web site
ePolitix - get your own e-mail news feed
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
media workers against the war
archives of the weekly spin
national union of journalists (UK & Ireland)
medialens: the real news from the US
International News Safety Institute
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet.
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
international federation of journalists
