Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF)
for diverse, democratic and accountable media
CPBF Media Manifesto 1986by Ann Field, Chair CPBF National Council The sad decision to wind up the CPBF follows a period of deep reflection. Despite declining resources the organisation’s breadth of activity has been maintained somehow: media reform, public service broadcasting, national and regional newspaper monopolisation, News Corp/Sky, Free Press, the website, Media Manifestos, participation in … [Read more...]
“Rupert Murdoch 2011 Shankbone” by David Shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0DESPERATE MEASURES are being taken by the Murdoch media companies to shore up the bid to buy up Sky TV. Culture secretary Karen Bradley was expected to announce that she will refer the bid to the Competition and Markets Authority as Free Press went to the printer. In July she said she was “minded” to do so after a report from the media regulator Ofcom that it would hand the … [Read more...]