The Media Reform Coalition has published a new edition of its flagship ‘Who Owns the UK Media?’ repo
Posted by Gerard on June 9, 2025, 10:18 am
"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.
"The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and other senior bosses at the corporation have drawn up plans to win over voters of Reform UK, due to a belief that their news and drama output is creating “low trust issues” with supporters of Nigel Farage’s party.
Minutes of a meeting of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee in March, seen by Byline Times, show that BBC News CEO Deborah Turness gave a presentation in which she discussed plans to alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama” in order to win the trust of Reform voters.
on June 9, 2025, 10:18 am