If Keir Starmer is serious about protecting UK journalism, he should enact some of the many existing proposals to fix a fourth estate on its knees (Journalism is the lifeblood of British democracy. My government will protect it, 28 October).
Tough new measures are needed to address the problem of concentrated media ownership and to stimulate a more plural environment. This means confronting the media monopolies, but also limiting the unaccountable power of big tech. Companies such as Meta, Google and X make millions from hosting journalism, yet they continue to pump capital into destructive technologies that threaten the industry.
