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FT urges Vince Cable to investigate News Corp's BSkyB takeover
DATELINE: 22/9/10The Financial Times has today (20 September) joined calls for the business secretary, Vince Cable, to investigate News Corporation's proposed takeover of BSkyB, arguing that there is a "clear public interest case for doing so". In its leader column the FT, part of Pearson Group, which also owns book publisher Penguin and 50% of the Economist, argued that there is a "clear risk" that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp could "dominate the media scene, lock out challengers and stifle the diversity of debate". The FT leader also refers to the News of the World phone-hacking affair, saying it raises "broader questions about Mr Murdoch's powerful grip on the UK media industry".
Tell Vince...
DATELINE: 18/9/10Take action to support our campaign to stop Rupert Murdoch taking control of BSkyB. Tens of thousands of people signed the 38 Degrees petition telling Vince Cable to stand up to Murdoch's power grab. This is huge progress - but we need to act together fast to stop Rupert Murdoch fighting back.
Let's just get rid of it
DATELINE: 17/9/10The Press Complaints Commission has conducted an 'independent' report on its future. But it's not independent and it doesn't tackle any of the problems. Tim Gopsill has had enough of this fakery and says it's time to campaign, not for improvements to the PCC, but its abolition.
Media and democracy - Twitter could make a difference
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.
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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
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European Institute for the Media
european journalism centre
global journalism review
global village cat - access TV worldwide
ideosphere: non-profit media consultancy (sweden)
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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
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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
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RAM (Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media) project bulletin
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save welsh tv
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signs of the times
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stop war web site
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the memory hole
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US Free Press
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
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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
