Touch Paper: Launching a News Club Network

At the heart of today’s intersecting crises - climate breakdown, inequality, conflict, and social division - is a media landscape heavily shaped by political, corporate, and nefarious interests. These forces create misleading narratives which are algorithmically boosted to obstruct the call for the urgent societal changes needed for a just and sustainable future. Join Media Revolution and Conway Hall Ethical Society as we launch a News Club Network. News Clubs make media consumption a conscientious, collective, empowering community activity, where we can discuss and challenge the news we consume - together. By disrupting the doom-scroll and division and by strengthening media literacy, News Clubs can help us reduce our susceptibility to disinformation and deepen our understanding of how powerful interests shape public opinion. Keynote speaker Gail Bradbrook, Founder of Extinction Rebellion, leads an expert panel for an evening of discussion, community-building and an interactive introduction to how News Clubs work.