Radio Active Magazine

Dan Hind discusses the Media Reform Coalition with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves. The Media Reform Coalition insists that, "Our media is broken" and is "Leading the fight for a media fit for the 21st-century" in the UK. The Media Reform Coalition was founded in 2011 in the wake of the revelations that the News of the World had hacked the phones of victims of crime. In 2017 Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox attempted to buy British Sky News. The Media Reform Coalition and others lobbied successfully to block that purchase. The Media Reform Coalition does research, organizing, and advocacy including testifying before Parliamentary committees. For example, in 2024 the Media Reform Coalition offered written evidence for the British House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry on "The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology". This included the observation that, "There is an urgent need for further research into the applications and impact of AI ... [and] policy dev