Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom - CPBF

31/12/2025

The New Years Honours list reminded me of Phil Scranton who chaired the Independent Inquiry into the Hillsborough Disaster.
I met Phil Scraton when I went to speak in Belfast in August 2016 about the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. He teaches law at Queen's University, Belfast.
He talked to me about how he had to resist all sorts of pressures to ensure that the Hillsborough Independent Panel report really was independent.

Hillsborough campaigner Prof Phil Scraton turns down an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.

20/12/2025

Date for your 2026 diary.

30/11/2025

The Winter issue of MediaNorth is out now.
You can read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/MNDec2025WEB.pdf

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.