U.K. Government Proposes Changes to Media Merger Laws “for the Digital Age”
U.K. culture secretary Lisa Nandy on Wednesday revealed strategies to expand the scope of U.K. media merger laws, upgrading them "for the digital age to show contemporary news intake practices and much better safeguard media flexibility and plurality." The present regulative program just covers tv, radio and print publications.
The modifications would permit "higher analysis in the general public interest" of offers that consist of the purchase of U.K. online news publications and news publications "that may negatively affect precise reporting, liberty of expression and media plurality."
Presently, the media mergers routine set out in the Enterprise Act 2002 enables the Culture Secretary to "intervene in mergers and acquisitions of broadcasters (specified as services ...