"The findings in this report, together with our Media Manifesto, demonstrate the urgent need for radical media reform. Government, regulators and Parliament must act to break up the corporate media giants and unaccountable tech platforms that dominate the UK, to protect against further losses in media plurality and diversity, and to create new models for funding and supporting a genuinely independent, accountable and democratic media commons.

The Media Reform Coalition believes that media plurality is not a luxury in the digital age but an essential part of a media system in which vested interests should not be allowed to dominate. We want to see truly free and independent media that holds power to account and to serve the public as opposed to benefitting shareholders, proprietors or like-minded politicians.

Unaccountable concentrations of media power are amongst the greatest threats to a free and open democratic society. We need a proactive, future-proof framework for media plurality that supports a greater diversity of media owners, and public interest reforms to promote and uphold the highest standards in journalism": https://www.mediareform.org.uk/media-ownership/media-ownership-2025?link_id=3&can_id=779d62d66b93355c71f75af14b1ed096&source=email-who-owns-the-uk-media-new-2025-report&email_referrer=email_2763436&email_subject=who-owns-the-uk-media-new-2025-report#intro