Media Standards Trust

The Media Standards Trust holds regular live debates to raise awareness about standards in news. These address critical questions issues facing the news media – the relationship between the media and public life, the boundaries between news and private life, the relationship between journalism and public relations, and so on. To receive emails about forthcoming events subscribe to the Media Standards Trust email.

The Orwell Prize is the pre-eminent British prize for political writing and journalism. It rewards the book, and the journalism, that are judged to have most successfully achieved George Orwell’s aim to ‘make political writing into an art’. The Media Standards Trust works in partnership with the Orwell Trust, Political Quarterly and Reuters to run the awards.

The Transparency Initiative is a major new international project led by the Media Standards Trust in association with the Web Science Research Initiative. It is exploring and developing ways to make online news more transparent so that the public has the information they need to make good choices.

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built by the Media Standards Trust to make it easier for the public to find out more about journalists and what they write about. It is non-commercial and non-partisan. It is intended to make the news media more transparent and accountable on behalf of the public (as opposed to journalists or PR).