{"id":479022,"date":"2022-01-21T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2022-01-21T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:06:50","slug":"a-media-policy-agenda-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/21\/a-media-policy-agenda-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"A Media Policy Agenda for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/policy-briefing-01\">a short briefing document<\/a> that provides an overview of critical debates currently taking place in UK media policy. Each of these issues involves serious policy failures, corporate abuses of power or underlying structural crises that threaten the ability of media organisations to hold powerful groups to account, serve the public interest and support the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing outlines a policy agenda focused on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The future of the BBC and the licence fee<\/li>\n<li>Channel 4 privatisation<\/li>\n<li>Government appointments and media independence<\/li>\n<li>Media plurality<\/li>\n<li>Local journalism and press regulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It draws on recent MRC research for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/blog\/uk-media-influence-matrix-final-report\">UK Media Influence Matrix<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1_6GeXiDR3DGh1sYjFI_hbgV9HfLWzhPi\/view\">Manifesto for a People&#8217;s Media<\/a> and our 2021 research on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/media-ownership\/who-owns-the-uk-media\">UK media ownership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few months, we will be producing further briefings on a range of topics including a detailed analysis of the licence fee settlement, media plurality and ownership and forthcoming Online Harms legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/policy-briefing-01\">The briefing document is available to read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/blog\/a-media-policy-agenda-for-2022\">A Media Policy Agenda for 2022<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/\">Media Reform Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/blog\/a-media-policy-agenda-for-2022?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-media-policy-agenda-for-2022\">Media Reform Coalition<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just produced a short briefing document that provides an overview of critical debates currently taking place in UK media policy. Each of these issues involves serious policy failures, corporate abuses of power or underlying structural crises that threaten the ability of media organisations to hold powerful groups to account, serve the public interest [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/blog\/a-media-policy-agenda-for-2022\">A Media Policy Agenda for 2022<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediareform.org.uk\/\">Media Reform Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1303,5,4672,4673,4674,4675],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479023,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479022\/revisions\/479023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}