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  • May 6, 2020
    Threat against Philippines broadcaster 'dark day for media freedom'

    In recent years, ABS-CBN has produced numerous investigative reports highlighting extrajudicial executions committed as part of the government’s 'war on drugs'.

  • July 12, 2019
    Muslim Council of Britain launches Centre for Media Monitoring

    The Centre's goal is to promote fair and responsible reporting of Muslims and Islam, by engaging constructively with the media and empowering communities to make a change, says the MCB.

  • December 6, 2014
    Thinking about inheritance: BBC Radio Scotland, 7 December

    Tomorrow morning (Sunday 7 December) I am taking part in a discussion on BBC Radio Scotland unpacking the ethics of inheritance, how it touches our heads and hearts, and how it relates to issues of social justice for this and future generations.

  • April 18, 2014
    Easter reflection: bayonets and green blades

    Two friends of Ekklesia will be appearing on BBC Radio Scotland at 8.05am on Easter Sunday morning (20 April 2014), in a programme intriguingly entitled 'Bayonets and Green Blades'.

  • February 4, 2014
    The media regularly fails sick and disabled people, but it can be challenged

    Disabled and sick people's experience, views and expertise is frequently filtered out of skewed debates and discussions about welfare and benefits. Here researcher, blogger and campaigner Sue Marsh explains what it's like to negotiate the media circus as a person living with a deeply debilitating condition, how the mainstream media fails those most impacted by government-driven cuts and stigma, and why "we must make our own media".

  • January 7, 2014
    'Benefits Street': a misleading, harmful caricature from Channel 4

    Prior to Channel Four’s ‘Benefits Street’ being aired last night (6 January 2014), the tabloid press had primed its readers, with plenty of articles such as this one from the Daily Express, laden with Iain Duncan Smith-style rhetoric: ‘broken Britain, scroungers, workshy, burden on society’, etcetera.

  • September 2, 2013
    Ekklesia comment on the Syrian crisis

    Ekklesia staff and associates have been busy commenting, analysing and reporting on the crisis in Syria and the responses of the international community, especially the UK and US governments.

  • March 24, 2013
    A different angle on current affairs: Ekklesia on the airwaves

    Ekklesia staff, associates and friends have been much in demand on the radio and television recently. Tomorrow (Sunday 24 March 2013), new associate Keith Hebden, an Anglican priest involved in social justice advocacy and the activist network Christianity Uncut, will be appearing on a range of local BBC radio stations across England (7am - 9am), making the case against the government's unpaid 'workfare' mandatory work placement programme.

  • February 18, 2013
    Why I support the BBC journalists' protest

    These are incredibly tough times for quality journalism across Britain, and cuts at the BBC -- the country's flagship broadcaster -- are making things even worse.

  • January 22, 2013
    Where are the alternative and challenging voices on the BBC?

    I have been concerned about the BBC for some time. I wrote about those concerns last year and since then I believe matters have got worse, not better. As far as political coverage is concerned, this national treasure is beginning to look like a cosy club.