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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45271286
EXCERPT: The Labour leader called for radical reform of the "failing" news media in a speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Other ideas include a "digital licence fee" - paid for by big tech companies and internet providers - and publishing data on BBC employees' social class. [...] The Conservatives said Labour's proposals were economically illiterate and [...] would increase consumers' bills.
Speaking on Thursday in the Alternative MacTaggart lecture, Mr Corbyn said the British press is "the least trusted press in Europe". He said he wants greater investment in investigative, public interest journalism. Existing not-for-profit news organisations, like the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, could be given charitable status, he said.
[...] Mr Corbyn also said:
He wants a "dogged" local media with the "money and time" to work on stories. He said quality journalism "requires decent pay", citing statistics which show 24% of journalists earn less than £20,000 a year
Journalists in the private sector could elect their editors to help "make them accountable to their staff" as well as corporate bosses
New "news co-operatives" could be created to report on local government, private contractors operating public services, and regulated bodies
"The best journalism takes on the powerful, in the corporate world as well as government and helps create an informed public," he said.
[...] Responding to a question from a journalist about the recent ongoing media coverage of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, Mr Corbyn said his speech was not an act of "retribution or retaliation" to recent negative reports. He added that he has "spent his life opposing racism and anti-Semitism in any form"....
MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45271286
RELATED (wikipedia): Edinburgh International Television Festival .... Decline of newspapers .... Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party
EXCERPT: The Labour leader called for radical reform of the "failing" news media in a speech at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Other ideas include a "digital licence fee" - paid for by big tech companies and internet providers - and publishing data on BBC employees' social class. [...] The Conservatives said Labour's proposals were economically illiterate and [...] would increase consumers' bills.
Speaking on Thursday in the Alternative MacTaggart lecture, Mr Corbyn said the British press is "the least trusted press in Europe". He said he wants greater investment in investigative, public interest journalism. Existing not-for-profit news organisations, like the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, could be given charitable status, he said.
[...] Mr Corbyn also said:
He wants a "dogged" local media with the "money and time" to work on stories. He said quality journalism "requires decent pay", citing statistics which show 24% of journalists earn less than £20,000 a year
Journalists in the private sector could elect their editors to help "make them accountable to their staff" as well as corporate bosses
New "news co-operatives" could be created to report on local government, private contractors operating public services, and regulated bodies
"The best journalism takes on the powerful, in the corporate world as well as government and helps create an informed public," he said.
[...] Responding to a question from a journalist about the recent ongoing media coverage of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, Mr Corbyn said his speech was not an act of "retribution or retaliation" to recent negative reports. He added that he has "spent his life opposing racism and anti-Semitism in any form"....
MORE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45271286
RELATED (wikipedia): Edinburgh International Television Festival .... Decline of newspapers .... Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party
