Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom - CPBF

21/09/2025

Autumn issue of MediaNorth out now. Read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MediaNorth_Sept2025_WEB.pdf

12/08/2025

Only the Financial Times and Guardian thought the murder of five journalists in Gaza merits the front page in today's newspapers.

The Israeli military killed five Al Jazeera journalists with an airstrike on a press tent in Gaza City.

04/08/2025

Come along this Sunday at the South Yorkshire Festival.
Nick Jones is speaking at Wortley Hall, South Yorkshire S35 7DB on Sunday 10 August 2.00pm in the Unison Room. Admission Free.
He is speaking about how cartoonists for the left press - Militant, Socialist Worker, Newsline, Morning Star - covered the 1984-85 miners' strike. Jane Ingham will also speak about the recently published Need Not Greed, a collection of the cartoons of Alan Hardman of Militant.
Both Nick's book The Art of Class and Need Not Greed will be on sale.

22/06/2025

The Summer issue of MediaNorth is out now. You can read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/MediaNorthJune2025Web.pdf

28/03/2025

It's with great sadness that I have learned of the death of Bob McChesney, the US media reform activist and academic:

"The world of media scholarship, journalists far and wide, and anyone who cares about a free press, a functioning democracy, and a better world has suffered a tremendous loss," said Common Dreams' managing editor.

15/03/2025

Spring issue of MediaNorth just out. Read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MediaNorth_March2025WEB.pdf
Short notice but if you live in the Wakefield area Nick Jones is speaking at the Red Shed Wakefield at 2.00pm today. Paul Routledge reviews The Art of Class War in this issue.

07/03/2025

Review of book launch of The Art of Class War by Nick Jones. If you missed it, Nick Jones is speaking at the Red Shed Wakefield on Saturday 15 March 2.00pm.
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/the-1984-85-miners-strike-how-the-cartoonists-saw-it/

28/02/2025

Good review by Pete Lazenby of The Art of Class War in today's Morning Star.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/which-side-are-you
Book launch with Nick Jones and former Guardian Cartoonist Steve Bell Saturday 1 March in Leeds.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-art-of-class-war-tickets-1125228762519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85

21/02/2025

Just got this review of The Art of Class War from the Professional Cartoonists Organisation:
https://procartoonists.org/the-art-of-class-war-newspaper-cartoonists-and-the-1984-85-miners-strike/
Come along to the book launch on Saturday 1 March at Leeds Playhouse 2.00pm
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-art-of-class-war-tickets-1125228762519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

Cover cartoon: Alan Hartman from ‘Need Not Greed’ Glenn Marshall writes: A new book shines a Davy lamp on political cartoons during the bitter miners’ strike in the mid eighties. It includes around 130 cartoons. It’s by Nicholas Jones who was the BBC industrial and senior political correspon...

19/02/2025

Ten days to go! Hear Steve Bell, former Guardian cartoonist and Nick Jones author of The Art of Class War speak at the book launch of The Art of Class War. Saturday 1 March City Room Leeds Playhouse 2.00pm:
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-art-of-class-war-tickets-1125228762519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

10/02/2025

It's out! We took delivery of The Art of Class War on Friday. You can buy the book at our book launch (£10.00 cash or cheque only) at 2.00pm on Saturday 1 March in the City Room Leeds Playhouse.

Hear author Nick Jones and former Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-art-of-class-war-tickets-1125228762519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

Or you can buy the book (£12.00 inc P&P).
Email [email protected] for details of how to pay.

05/02/2025

We covered the Cardiff report on Question Time in the Winter issue of MediaNorth:
https://medianorth.org.uk/.../01/MediaNorthJan2025WEB.pdf
Good piece by Ray Snoddy on the same topic:
https://uk.themedialeader.com/cardiff-university-has-settled-the-bbc-bias-argument-once-and-for-all/

BBC bias has always been a matter of opinion. What was needed was independent research and now we have some from Cardiff University. Its findings do have a clear outcome, but perhaps not in the way expected.