Media Democracy Festival 2025

Media Reform Coalition

Join us at Media Democracy Festival 2025 for a day of panel debates, workshops and keynotes to build the movement to fix our broken media

Fyvie Hall

Our media is broken. Be part of the movement to fix it.Every year, the Media Democracy Festival brings together activists, independent media outlets, journalists, researchers and members of the public to debate how we can transform the media into a more independent, accountable and democratic system that serves the public interest.Featuring keynote speeches from broadcast journalist Sangita Myska and Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski.The Festival also features a prestigious line-up from UK media and politics, including Ava Evans of PoliticsJOE, former BBC newsreader Karishma Patel, journalist Peter Oborne, Byline Times editor Hardeep Matharu, Declassified UK's Mark Curtis, Bristol Cable journalist Priyanka Raval, Novara Media's Aaron Bastani and many more.Whether you're a hardened media reform advocate, a disillusioned media worker looking for change, or a curious media consumer, join us and help to reshape the media so that it works for people, not profit.

Agenda

Opening keynote: Sangita Myska

Big Tech vs. The People

Workshop: How lived-experience storytelling can create system change

The wars you don't see: the media's failures on global conflict

Oligarchs Inc.: Who owns the UK media?

Unfucking the media: A toolkit for activists

Fighting isolation & bitterness in the online world

Take back control: Building a media commons

Fighting far-right media dominance: Strategies and alliances for the left

Closing keynote: Zack Polanski

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