NEWS MEDIA COALITION
NMC
Believe Genuine news must continue to be a fundamental part of the lives of individuals and societies and the NMC believes that this must include reports, images, comment, analysis from organised events such as sports, news from cultural and civic events – all of which are equally at the heart of the fabric of everyday social life. Demand It is vital that there is an assured future for independent professionally-produced journalistic news-gathering operations and news content distribution; and the NMC demands there must be economic and public policy conditions to enable the news media sector to run viable, relevant and growing news businesses. Object NMC membership objects to the imposition of arbitrary limits on news from organised events of high public interest which in any way hinders the ability of the public to make decisions about accessing independent news content from varied sources of supply such as news publishers or news agencies. Reject Notions that publ (...)
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Giorgio Guazzugli Marini (Head of Unit Education, Youth, Sport and Culture)
16 Oct 2025 · Introduction of NMC to the Commission and offer their preliminary thoughts on the European Commission's Strategic Vision for Sport
Meeting with Marie Frenay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová), Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)
20 Sept 2023 · Artificial intelligence
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Vice-President) and
6 Sept 2023 · European Media Freedom Act
Response to Recommendation on fighting against online piracy of live content
10 Feb 2023
Meeting with Marie Frenay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)
14 Feb 2022 · UseTheNews project, data infrastructure for publishers
Meeting with Irena Joveva (Member of the European Parliament)
25 May 2021 · Situation of the news media market, disinformation and fake news
Meeting with Irena Joveva (Member of the European Parliament)
2 Oct 2020 · Challenges of sports events organizers in the digital environment
Meeting with Irena Joveva (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Jun 2020 · Challenges of sport events in the online environment
Meeting with Guglielmo Di Cola (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
31 Jan 2020 · access to sporting events for media organisations and limits on news media content