Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF)
for diverse, democratic and accountable media
THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 7.30PM–ADMISSION FREE Tyneside Irish Centre, 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4SG This public meeting looks at media coverage of the miners’ strike, the role of women in the strike and afterwards, and unfinished business from the strike in the call by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign for a public inquiry into the policing at Orgreave on … [Read more...]
South Yorkshire Festival, Wortley Hall Unison Room, Sunday 12 August 3pm Free admission. Nicholas Jones opens up the 1992 cabinet records to reveal as shameful episode of government duplicity and confusion when 30,000 miners were made redundant - the point of no return for the British coal industry. PLUS Debbie Wathews and Flis Callow from Sheffield Women Against Pit … [Read more...]
Orgreave Truth and Justice CampaignSome basic facts bear repeating. The gap between rich and poor in the UK was at its narrowest in the 1970s, a decade when trade unionism was at its strongest. In 2018 there is an obscene gap between those flaunting great wealth and working people battered by austerity and privatisation. We have the prospect of millions of people working in low-wage or zero-hour contract … [Read more...]
The Campaign's AGM on Saturday July 14 could well be its last. The National Council has decided to recommend that the CPBF be dissolved, and its officers have prepared a plan for winding down. The decision was, of course, not taken lightly. Many on the NC have been involved with CPBF since the beginning, fighting for media workers’ rights and campaigning for a better … [Read more...]
Liis Saar How we might go about creating and funding a Minimum Viable Platform for Better Media? The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom would like to invite all individual members of the CPBF and delegates from our affiliated organisations to attend our Annual General Meeting to be held on Saturday 14 July 2018 at the Diskus Centre, Unite HQ, 128 Theobalds Road, … [Read more...]
Image (c): TUC Library at London Metropolitan University.A call from members of the National Union of Journalists in Leeds for the union to raise awareness of the benefits for society of independent and ethical journalism as well as highlighting examples of journalists taking an individual or collective stand in its defence is being marked today. The suggestion originally came to mark the anniversary of a national strike on August … [Read more...]
Media Reform CoalitionThanks to all those who joined CPBF's public debate last Saturday on how to create a movement for a #BetterMedia in the UK (see the quick Storify just published here) This is just a quick reminder that today at 4pm our partners at the Media Reform Coalition are having an urgent media reform organising meeting. The meeting will take place at 4pm in the Keynes Library, 43 … [Read more...]
The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) are hosting a public debate on Creating a movement for a Better Media in the UK after the formal business of our AGM on Saturday 1 July 2017. RSVP on Eventbrite. To get the discussion going we'll be joined by three great speakers working at the forefront of this burgeoning movement: Hazel Healy from New … [Read more...]
BELONGING: The Truth Behind The Headlines shows what happened behind closed doors in three major industrial disputes. It also reveals disturbing new information about government and business collusion. A powerful, must-see film. THURSDAY 22 JUNE Unity+Works, Wakefield WF1 1EP Doors open 6.30pm Tickets £4 on the door Venue Conference Room 1 Film … [Read more...]
Pixabay CC0 Public Domainby Hacked Off statement A cross-party Committee of MPs has slammed the press industry for its campaign of misinformation around the Government's 'Leveson consultation'earlier this year. It hasconcluded that:“If IPSO itself were to fall short of what is expected of it under Leveson, the Committee would support the full commencement of Section 40 in one year’s time” and … [Read more...]