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DATELINE: 9/9/10Enough is more than enough. Ordinary members of the public like me are increasingly alarmed by the growth of powerful media corporations like News International, who can make or break governments and individuals. This is no new phenomenon but, as readers of this site will be all too aware, the stranglehold on print and broadcast media threatens to get tighter and tighter under the coalition government. Talk of cross media rules relaxation and a shrinking BBC sends shivers down our spines.
Why won't the PCC act over phone hacking?
DATELINE: 8/9/10And so the Press Complaints Commission sits there, not as King Canute failing to turn back the tide of voicemail hacking, but as the embodiment of all three monkeys, seeing nothing, saying nothing, and doing nothing.
Is coalition government the end of spin?
DATELINE: 8/9/10David Cameron's relationship with the news media sparked a lively discussion between the blogger and broadcaster Iain Dale and Nicholas Jones, author of 'Campaign 2010: The Making of the Prime Minister', when they debated the issue at a recent meeting hosted by the National Union of Journalists.
BBC chief talks to No 10 about selling the cuts
DATELINE: 5/9/10The director-general of the BBC has been accused of risking the corporation's editorial independence after it emerged that he attended a private Downing Street meeting to discuss coverage of Government spending cuts. Mark Thompson met with one of Mr Cameron's most senior aides to discuss offering senior Government figures prominent exposure on BBC channels in the coming weeks.
Other recent stories
BBC staff deliver massive mandate for action on pensions
Campaign 2010: the Making of the Prime Minister by Nicholas Jones
Fringe meeting at the TUC
Protesters condemn biased BBC documentary
Panorama's impartiality questioned
Ofcom recommends cross-media ownership rules should be relaxed
Vanunu released - international petition launched
Charles Atangana - deportation halted but keep up the pressure
Net censorship finds a new expression
Embedded with the Bankers
Licence fee for 'wasteful' BBC will be cut
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MEDIA FOR ALL CONFERENCE 09
DATELINE: 26/3/10
Media for All Conference 09
Conference Papers
Fringe meeting at the TUC
DATELINE: 26/8/10Tuesday 14 September 6.00pm – 8.00pm Mayor’s Parlour, Manchester Town Hall, M2 5DB
‘Media for All – the Democratic Challenge’.
An open event hosted by Making Good Society and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF), supported by the Carnegie UK Trust.
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Links
Links
al jazeera
AllConferences.Com - Directory of Conferences, conventions, exhibits, seminars, workshops, events, trade shows and business meetings. Includes calendar, dates, location, web site, contact and registration information.
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
allmediascotland - a directory and portal for the scottish media industry
alter-eu - The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation
arab media watch
archives of the weekly spin
bad subjects: political education for everyday life - from the University of California at Berkeley
bectu (broadcast, entertainment, cinematograph and theatre union)
Brass Check TV
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
british journalism review
campaign for freedom of information
Civil Rights Movement
columbia journalism review
committee to protect journalists
community media association
Corporate Europe Observatory: CEO is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
corporation watch (US)
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
Disinformation - US site combining analysis, rumour, paranoia and alternative lifestyles.
ePolitix - get your own e-mail news feed
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
European Institute for the Media
european journalism centre
global journalism review
global village cat - access TV worldwide
ideosphere: non-profit media consultancy (sweden)
Index on Censorship - international campaign for free expression, based on publication and website
indymedia: independent media
information clearing house
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
international federation of journalists
International Network for Cultural Diversity
International News Safety Institute
International Women's Media Foundation - US based organisation aimed at increasing women's participation in the media.
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
kurdishmedia.com
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.
media alliance (US)
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
media reform - us-based campaigning group also known as Free Press
media watch mailing list
media workers against the war
medialens: the real news from the US
michael moore's site
Middle East Media Guide
national union of journalists (UK & Ireland)
New book: Creating Fear - News and the construction of crisis, David L. Altheide
new internationalist
new internationalist online
notwar.net - quirky international peace group with details of hundreds of campaigning peace groups
NUJ Brussels branch
NUJ Glasgow branch
NUJ New Media industrial council
Observatoire Français des Médias (French only)
Ofcom website - the uk's broadcasting and telecoms regulator
One World
One World TV
pr watch's 'spin of the day'
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet.
presswise
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
RAM (Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media) project bulletin
red pepper - campaigning journal & web site
save welsh tv
Schnews - weekly newsletter from: Justice? Brighton's Direct Action Collective
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
signs of the times
sp media watch
spinwatch - monitoring PR and spin in the public interest (independent UK-based group)
stop war web site
subscribe to 'the weekly spin'
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
the memory hole
truth out - a US Democrat news site
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
US Free Press
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
who owns what - from columbia journalism review
wordpower: books to change our world
working for change (US)
world association for christian communication (WACC)
world association of community radio broadcasters
world commission on the social dimension of globalisation (ilo)
writers' guild of great britain
