Join us for a special live edition of People Just Do Something to kick off our campaign launch: “News You Own, Can’t Be Bought.”

We’re living in an age of media capture. 

Rupert Murdoch built newsrooms that ran on scandal, entrapment, and phone hacking, filling tabloids with “tits and gossip.” In return for flattering coverage, successive governments helped clear the runway for his ever-expanding media monopoly.

billionaires and hedge funds buying up national and local titles, gutting newsrooms, and turning journalism into a vehicle for shareholder returns.

And now, a deranged band of tech bro-oligarchs shape how information spreads online. We’ve seen Elon Musk amplify hateful speech to mass audiences with a single click — fueling real-world violence on our streets.

Something needs to change. 

That’s why we’re launching our membership campaign: News You Own, Can’t Be Bought—a call to reclaim journalism as a public good, and build a people-powered newsroom in our city. 

This live recording of People Just Do Something brings together people fighting to change the system—through policy, campaigning, and alternative newsroom models.

Join Priyanka and Isaac in conversation with Aman Sethi (openDemocracy), Banseka Kayembe (Naked Politics), Liz Pendleton (Media Revolution) and a surprise guest from Hacked Off (who may or may not be Steve Coogan)… as we ask: what would it take to take the media back?