THE MEDIA SOCIETY

Registered charity 313450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MEDIA SOCIETY LIMITED (INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS FOUNDATION)

To:- promote research into the standards, performance, organisation & economics of the media. - provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge & opinion between people working in the media and those in public & political life, the professions, industry & education.- involve individuals in a debate about the role of mass communication- promote study of the media in educational establishments

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA OF MASS COMMUNICATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY BY THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES AND FELLOWSHIPS TENABLE AT UNIVERSITES AND COLLEGES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO THE STANDARDS, PERFORMANCE, ORGANISATION AND ECONOMICS OF THE MEDIA, THE ATTTITUDES OF THE GOVERNMENT, THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULAR SECTIONS OF THE PUBLIC TOWARDS THE MEDIA AND ALLIED TOPICS, AND THE EFFECT OF ALL OR ANY OF THE FOREGOING ON THE WELL-BEING OF SOCIETY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY AND RESEARCH. 2. TO ASSIST IN DETERMINING THOSE TOPICS OF AND INTO WHICH STUDY AND RESEARCH MIGHT BE MOST BENEFICIALLY UNDERTAKEN BY AFFORDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE AND OPINION BETWEEN, ON THE ONE HAND, PERSONS ENGAGED PROFESSIONALLY IN THE MEDIA AND, ON THE OTHER, PERSONS IN PUBLIC AND POLITICAL LIFE, THE PROFESSIONS, INDUSTRY, COMMERCE AND LEARNING AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, THROUGH MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, THE ISSUE OF PERIODICAL AND OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS AND BY ALL OTHER LAWFUL MEANS. 3. TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF THE MEDIA IN SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS GENERALLY.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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• Conflicting interests
• Risk management

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Dacrechair
• Alexandra Jean Mackenzie Sinker
• Conrad Quilty-Harper
• Dominic St John Ewan Cameron
• MICHAEL SKREIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Arthur Walker
• Professor Ivor Harold Gaber
• SUSAN MORTON

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Operates in: Throughout London

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