Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom - CPBF

24/01/2025

Good strong piece by Alan Rusbridger on Monday's court case:

Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please ...

23/01/2025

Did a short piece in MediaNorth about the Centre for Media Monitoring report on GB News. Expanded article just out in Yorkshire Bylines https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/gb-news-provocateur-or-broadcaster/

22/01/2025

Great to see the publicity in the Northern Agenda for our book launch on Saturday 1 March in Leeds. Book your place here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-art-of-class-war-tickets-1125228762519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

12/01/2025

Good Sunday Mirror front page. We cover Farage in the latest issue of MediaNorth:https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/MediaNorthJan2025WEB.pdf

11/01/2025

Book launch: The Art of Class War Saturday 1 March 2.00pm City Room Leeds Playhouse. Cartoonist Steve Bell and Nick Jones speaking.
Reserve your place here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-art-of-class-war-tickets-1125228762519?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=1

08/01/2025

Winter issue of MediaNorth out now. You can read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/MediaNorthJan2025WEB.pdf

01/12/2024

We produced the first issue of MediaNorth on this day six years ago. Next issue due out January. www.medianorth.org.uk

05/10/2024

Autumn issue of MediaNorth out now. Read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/MediaNorth.October2024WEB2b.pdf

17/08/2024

Good piece by Nick Jones (former BBC Industrial Corrspondent) in Yorkshire Bylines. Nick is speaking tomorrow (Sunday 18 August) at our MediaNorth event at the South Yorkshire Festival: The Art of Class War: News Cartoonists and the MIners' Strike. It's in the Unison Room 2.00p, Wortley Hall.

Arthur Scargill revealed the source of a secret pit closure "hit list" from 1982, shedding light on internal coal board tensions during the miners' strike

13/07/2024

Summer issue of MediaNorth out now. Read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MediaNorth.July2024WEB.pdf

17/06/2024

Do go and see this tremendous film. Great archive footage.

Filmmaker Daniel Gordon follows his double BAFTA-winning, EMMY-nominated and critically acclaimed documentary HILLSBOROUGH with a searing new feature documentary.

15/03/2024

The Spring issue of MediaNorth is now out. You can read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MediaNorth.March2024WEB.pdf

25/02/2024

Leaflet and booking details for our event in May

25/02/2024

Should be interesting. Media coverage of Northern Ireland (and censorship) was a key issue for the CPBF.

Former BBC One controller Paul Fox says anti-Catholic prejudice was deeply embedded at the corporation during the Troubles

30/01/2024

The 1984-85 miners’ strike as seen by news cartoonists
Speaker: Nicholas Jones (BBC Reporter who covered the 1984-85 strike)
Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm Kingswood Suite Wakefield Town Hall Wood Street WF1 2HQ
A With Banners Held High/ MediaNorth event
Admission Free

27/01/2024

The article by Nick Jones on Cartoons from the miners' strike reprinted in Yorkshire Bylines. Nick is speaking on this topic at this year's With Banners Held High on Wednesday 8 May 7.30 Wakefield Town Hall

How did cartoonists depict the heroes and villains, police brutality, working class solidarity, and growing despair of miners’ communities starved back to work?

05/01/2024

Winter issue of MediaNorth out now
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MediaNorth.January2024WEB.pdf

31/12/2023

The death of John Pilger on 30 December was very sad news. He was a supporter of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, spoke at our conferences and wrote for Free Press. His strong voice will be missed. Condolences to his family.