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It’s grim down under: Australia, Murdoch and political control – Granville...
A report in the Brisbane Times, 12 June 2014, revealed Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his chief-of-staff, Peta Credlin, spent more than 2½ hours at Mr Murdoch’s apartment near Central Park...
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Why Rupert Murdoch’s plan to rule the media world still needs newspapers more...
Rupert Murdoch’s latest bid for empire expansion has fallen on deaf ears. His offer to buy Time Warner for US$80 billion was resoundingly rejected by the owners of CNN, HBO and Warner Brothers. But...
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Hacked Off: Murdoch now has his eyes fixed on Europe – Evan Harris
Press Freedom goes beyond ensuring that any regulatory framework is completely independent of Government (and of course the Leveson proposals fully meet that requirement). It is also about protecting...
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A predictable act of political cowardice: the government’s response on Media...
If one week is a long time in politics, three years are an eternity. Remember those heady days in July 2011, as the phone-hacking scandal broke and unanimous condemnation from our political leaders’...
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Long Grass Grows Quicker in the Summer: A Response to the Government’s...
Those HR people in the Culture Department are a hard-nosed bunch. Instead of letting civil servants working on the media ownership brief have a well-deserved rest in Tuscany, they keep them at their...
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Transparency of media ownership: a first step towards media plurality...
The new report, written by Rachael Craufurd Smith and Yolande Stolte, presents the results of a project byAccess Info Europe and the Open Society Program on Independent Journalism that surveyed of...
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Media Plurality Dialogue: what have we learned, and where next? – Damian Tambini
How might Facebook, Google and other intermediaries influence the outcome of the 2015 UK election? Are they displacing newspapers and TV as kingmakers? As Robin Foster noted, and data from the Oxford...
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Media Reform Coalition: Poll shows strong support for action on media ownership
Figures in a new poll reveal that there is overwhelming public support for action to confront the unaccountable power of media proprietors in the UK. 74 per cent believe that, in order to own a UK...
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Australia: Why media reform has been so hard to achieve – Tim Dwyer
From the mid-20th century, there has been substantial international support for plurality of media ownership. Policies designed to limit the number of media outlets owned or controlled by one...
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Media Reform Coalition: New Report, Who Owns the UK Media in 2019
The Media Reform Coalition produced its first comprehensive report on media ownership in the UK back in 2015 when it argued concentrated ownership was a significant problem for any modern democracy....
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