About The NMC

The News Media Coalition is an international organisation and network focusing on the specific threat to legitimate editorial, press and publishing freedoms from the controls placed on news-gathering and news-distribution practices by the organisers of major events of public interest.

Independent journalism and news has never been more important.

Amidst the clutter of digital information, the News Media Coalition strives to ensure that mainstream publishers and news agencies can continue to run legitimate news operations by producing editorial content at major news events - without interference. This is vital where limits are imposed on how, where and when non-official news material is brought to the public attention.

Four editors from across Europe – Paul Radford of Thomson Reuters, Diego Antonelli from the Gazzetta dello Sport website, Klaus Smentek of Kicker and Mark Skipworth of The Daily Telegraph – talk to the News Media Coalition about the challenges of covering sport today.

As Trevor Huggins reports, the media’s right to report and to have meaningful access to players loom large among their concerns.