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'''Novara Media''' (often shortened to '''Novara''')<ref name="JM"/><ref name="AC">{{cite news |last=Chakelian |first=Anoosh |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/09/luxury-communism-now-rise-pro-corbyn-media |title="Luxury communism now!" The rise of the pro-Corbyn media |work=New Statesman |date=25 September 2017 |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110063520/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/09/luxury-communism-now-rise-pro-corbyn-media |archive-date=2020-01-10 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="bigissue"/><ref name="NK">{{cite news |last=Khomami |first=Nadia |title=Fund launched to create independent media free from rightwing bias |no-pp=yes |page=Media |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/02/fund-launched-to-create-independent-media |work=The Guardian |date=2 October 2017 |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613234532/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/oct/02/fund-launched-to-create-independent-media |archive-date=2018-06-13 |url-status=live }}</ref> is an [[Independent media|independent]],<ref name="Mayhew">F. Mayhew, '[https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/organisation-looking-to-revolutionise-the-way-independent-media-is-funded-wants-to-step-away-from-profit-driven-models/ The Media Fund offers 'democratic' alternative to billionaire press owners and BBC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215065913/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/organisation-looking-to-revolutionise-the-way-independent-media-is-funded-wants-to-step-away-from-profit-driven-models/ |date=2018-12-15 }}' (11/10/17) in [[Press Gazette]]</ref> left-wing [[alternative media]] organisation based in the United Kingdom.<ref name="AC"/>
Novara Media was founded in 2011 by James Butler and Aaron Bastani, who met in the same year during the [[2010 United Kingdom student protests|protests against the increase in UK university tuition fees]]. Novara Media is a trading name of Thousand Hands Ltd, and its office and studio is in south-east London.
==Launch==
Novara was founded in June 2011 by James Butler and Aaron Bastani. Butler was educated at the [[London Oratory School]], followed by [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] from where he graduated with a degree in English. Bastani was educated at [[University College London]]. Initially, Bastani and Butler hosted an hour-long live show and [[podcast]], called Novara FM, on [[community radio]] station [[Resonance FM]]<ref name="GentWalker">C. Gent and M. Walker, 'Alternative Media: A new factor in electoral politics?' in D. Wring, R. Mortimore and S. Atkinson (eds), ''Political Communication in Britain'' ([[Palgrave Macmillan]], 2018),p. 117-128: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00822-2_8</ref> as a kind of 'socialist [[night school]].'<ref name="FT">{{cite news | last = Judah | first = Ben | url = https://www.ft.com/content/0e99fc98-4872-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3 | title = Momentum: inside Labour's revolutionary movement | work = Financial Times | date = 27 April 2018 | access-date = 5 June 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200103222230/https://www.ft.com/content/0e99fc98-4872-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3 | archive-date = 2020-01-03 | url-status = live }}</ref> The intention was to feed into the leftist movement that had resulted in the student protests.<ref name="FT"/> They named the show after the Italian town, [[Novara]], in [[Elio Petri]]'s 1971 film ''[[The Working Class Goes to Heaven]]''.<ref name="AC"/><ref name="FT"/> The venture developed into Novara Media in 2013 with the involvement of others engaged in [[direct action]] in the student movement.<ref name="GentWalker"/> Novara diversified and, in addition to audio, written and video content were produced,<ref name="bigissue"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://euroalter.com/projects/novara-media |title=Novara Media |website=euroalter.com |publisher=[[European Alternatives]] |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703133809/https://euroalter.com/projects/novara-media |archive-date=2018-07-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Novara Media established itself as a multimedia project.<ref name="GentWalker"/>
==Editorial position==
Novara has a left wing editorial position. The organisation has frequently advocated the political idea of "[[Post-scarcity economy#Automated Luxury Communism|fully automated luxury communism]]", "a political vision which advocates a transition to [[post-work society]] where [[Post-scarcity economy|abundance]] is [[Common ownership|held in common]]"<ref name="GentWalker"/> – or, as Bastani puts it, "the full [[automation]] of everything and common ownership of that which is automated".<ref>{{cite news |last=Merchant |first=Brian |title=Fully automated luxury communism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18/fully-automated-luxury-communism-robots-employment |work=The Guardian |date=18 March 2015 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6cwd13e3N?url=http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18/fully-automated-luxury-communism-robots-employment |archive-date=2015-11-10 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Ash Sarkar]], who described herself as "literally a [[Communism|communist]]" during an appearance on ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/news/piers-morgan-clashes-with-trump-protester-in-fiery-debate |title=Piers Morgan clashes with Trump protester in fiery debate |date=12 July 2018 |website=itv.com |publisher=ITV |access-date=27 November 2018}}</ref> subsequently defined communism being "about the desire to see the coercive structures of state dismantled, while also having fun".<ref>{{cite news |last=Hogan |first=Michael |date=22 July 2018 |title='That's when I lost my temper': Ash Sarkar on her clash with Piers Morgan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/22/thats-when-i-lost-my-temper-ash-sarkar-on-her-clash-with-piers-morgan |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728195535/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/22/thats-when-i-lost-my-temper-ash-sarkar-on-her-clash-with-piers-morgan |archive-date=2018-07-28 |url-status=live }}</ref>
At its inception, Novara Media's attitude towards the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] "veered between sceptical and hostile – but certainly not hopeful".<ref name="GentWalker"/> The media outlet's affinities, however, were drawn towards the Labour Party by the interest generated by [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s [[2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election|2015 bid to be the leader of the party]]—unlike many within Labour, Corbyn and his allies, [[John McDonnell]] and [[Diane Abbott]], were seen by those at Novara to be allies of extra-parliamentary political movements on the left, like those in which Novara Media's team were involved.<ref name="GentWalker"/> Novara was supportive of [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s leadership of the Labour Party<ref name="AC">{{cite news |last=Chakelian |first=Anoosh |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/09/luxury-communism-now-rise-pro-corbyn-media |title="Luxury communism now!" The rise of the pro-Corbyn media |work=New Statesman |date=25 September 2017 |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110063520/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/09/luxury-communism-now-rise-pro-corbyn-media |archive-date=2020-01-10 |url-status=live }}</ref> and obtained a July 2015 interview with Jeremy Corbyn on the day he became the [[bookmaker]]s' favourite to win the [[2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election|2015 Labour Party leadership election]].<ref name="FT"/> Those at Novara Media believe Corbyn was willing to give interviews to them because they—in contrast to a mainstream media largely hostile towards him—took his policies seriously and believed them worthy of scrutiny.<ref name="GentWalker"/> A number of other interviews with Corbyn and McDonnell followed.<ref name="GentWalker"/> Other guests on Novara included [[Labour Party Chairman]] [[Ian Lavery]], Shadow Home Secretary [[Diane Abbott]], the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] MP [[Caroline Lucas]] and [[Chris Williamson (politician)|Chris Williamson]].<ref name="FT"/>
During the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 election]], Novara campaigned enthusiastically for the party, with co-founder Aaron Bastani predicting the party's vote share exceeding 36% on the eve of the ballot.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=aaronbastani |number=1204873782911021058 |date=11 December 2019 |title=It'll Go Higher }}</ref> During the election, Novara staff regularly took briefings from the party via [[Whatsapp]],<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Corbyn marshals support via WhatsApp |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-marshals-support-via-whatsapp-2j8qh95w2 |work=The Times |location=London |date=5 June 2018 |access-date=2 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102123537/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-marshals-support-via-whatsapp-2j8qh95w2 |archive-date=2020-01-02 |url-status=live }}</ref> and hosted interviews with Labour politicians, including Diane Abbott, [[Emma Dent Coad]] and [[Laura Pidcock]]. However, after the end of [[Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn's leadership of labour]] and [[Keir Starmer]]'s victory in the [[2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|2020 leadership contest]] Novara, like various other left-wing alternative media outlets in the UK, again took a far more critical view on the party's leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McDowell-Naylor|first=Declan|last2=Thomas|first2=Richard|last3=Cushion|first3=Stephen|title=How left-wing media sites have changed their coverage of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer|url=http://theconversation.com/how-left-wing-media-sites-have-changed-their-coverage-of-the-labour-party-under-keir-starmer-142686|access-date=2020-08-11|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref>
Novara offered varied perspectives on the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|2016 EU membership referendum]], with Bastani initially advocating [[Brexit|the UK's withdrawal from the EU]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://novaramedia.com/2016/04/18/why-the-left-should-vote-to-leave-the-eu/|title=Why the left should vote to leave the EU|date=18 April 2016|website=novaramedia.com|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126221652/https://novaramedia.com/2016/04/18/why-the-left-should-vote-to-leave-the-eu/|archive-date=2018-11-26|url-status=live}}</ref> and James Butler advocating a pro-remain argument.<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Novara Media | date=4 July 2016 | title=I voted remain, but ignoring the outcome would be terrible for democracy | URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0n3TpCLAcg | access-date=26 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102094011/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0n3TpCLAcg | archive-date=2017-11-02 | url-status=live }}</ref> Novara hosted multiple debates on [[Brexit]] related issues from a left wing viewpoint.<ref>{{Cite web|title=#EUref – Can there be a left-wing Brexit?|url=https://novaramedia.com/2016/03/17/the-fix-euref-can-there-be-a-left-wing-brexit/|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Novara Media|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Soft Brexit:Not so EEAsy?|url=https://novaramedia.com/2018/06/11/soft-brexitnot-so-eeasy/|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Novara Media|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A Second Referendum: the Debate|url=https://novaramedia.com/2018/06/25/a-second-referendum-the-debate/|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Novara Media|language=en}}</ref>
Novara "sets itself in opposition to what it sees as biased "mainstream media".<ref>A. Panjwani, '[https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/novara-media-pulls-video-wrongly-using-clip-from-2012-strike-in-report-on-catalonia-independence-vote-violence/ Novara Media pulls video wrongly using clip from 2012 strike in report on Catalonia independence vote violence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219044249/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/novara-media-pulls-video-wrongly-using-clip-from-2012-strike-in-report-on-catalonia-independence-vote-violence/ |date=2018-12-19 }} (11/10/17) on [[Press Gazette]]</ref> Its staff and editorial team believe traditional media outlets express a narrow view of politics and are out of touch with a segment of the UK public,<ref name="AC"/> have missed a shift in the UK's political mood,<ref name="NK"/> and has a corrupting influence on the UK's democracy.<ref>Aaron Bastani, interviewed on ''[[The Listening Post]]'', '[https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/05/british-media-coverage-corbyn-balanced-biased-170520081734337.html British media's coverage of Corbyn: Balanced or biased?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219134253/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/05/british-media-coverage-corbyn-balanced-biased-170520081734337.html |date=2018-12-19 }}' (20/05/17) on [[Al Jazeera English]]</ref> In a 2017 ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' article, [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' programme presenter [[Nick Robinson (journalist)|Nick Robinson]] said Novara Media, along with other alternative media organisations, were involved in a "[[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]]" on the [[BBC]] and mainstream media as part of an attack on what they saw as [[the establishment]]—and that this was undermining public trust in mainstream news outlets.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nick Robinson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/27/mainstream-news-win-back-trust-dissident-voices|title=If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices {{!}} Nick Robinson|date=27 September 2017|work=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305232331/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/27/mainstream-news-win-back-trust-dissident-voices|archive-date=2019-03-05|url-status=live}}</ref> Sarkar responded that Robinson had incorrectly identified the reasons people were losing trust in mainstream media, stating that the "political classes"—including the "establishment political media"—had been trying for a number of years to assure the public that they (i.e., the political classes) were "still responsible custodians of power, which after a disastrous [[War on terror|intervention]] in the [[Middle East]] and a [[Financial crisis of 2007–2008|financial calamity]] people aren't feeling any more".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/28/alternative-news-sites-attack-nick-robinsons-claim-of-guerilla-war-on-bbc|title=Alternative news sites attack Nick Robinson’s claim of ‘guerrilla war’ on BBC|last1=Ruddick|first1=Graham|last2=Khomami|first2=Nadia|date=28 September 2017|work=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2018-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416195236/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/28/alternative-news-sites-attack-nick-robinsons-claim-of-guerilla-war-on-bbc|archive-date=2019-04-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Staff and contributors==
The list of contributors grew to include [[Ash Sarkar]],<ref>L. Diavolo, '[https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ash-sarkar-communist-called-piers-morgan-idiot Meet Ash Sarkar, the Communist Who Called Piers Morgan an "Idiot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122094038/https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ash-sarkar-communist-called-piers-morgan-idiot |date=2018-11-22 }} (15/07/18) in [[Teen Vogue]]</ref> [[Dalia Gebrial]] and [[Shon Faye]].<ref>L. Corner, '[https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/83540/olly-alexander-says-will-take-queer-popstar-big-beyonce/ Olly Alexander says it will take a while for a queer popstar to be as big as Beyoncé] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215230132/https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/83540/olly-alexander-says-will-take-queer-popstar-big-beyonce/ |date=2018-12-15 }}' (15/08/17) in [[Gay Times]]</ref> Michael Walker hosts TyskySour, the network's news and political live streams on its [[YouTube]] channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/michael-walker|title=Michael Walker|journal=Jacobin|access-date=12 August 2020}}</ref> By September 2017, Novara was run by a core team of 15 [[Volunteering|volunteers]], and had about 200 paid contributing writers.<ref name="AC"/> The writers are external to the organisation.<ref name="GentWalker"/>
==Readership==
A July 2015 interview with [[Jeremy Corbyn]] on the day he became the [[bookmaker]]s' favourite to win the 2015 Labour Party leadership election attracted 60,000 views in its week of publication.<ref name="FT"/> Novara's self-reported [[Web traffic|site traffic]] statistics for the period of the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 UK general election]] were "modest": their election [[Liveblogging|liveblog]] attracting 5,500 readers and their most popular election-related [[Article (publishing)|article]] 3,700 readers. This increased during the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]]: the Novara website received a quarter of a million [[Hit (Internet)|hits]]; their videos on Facebook received 2.3 million views; and on the day of the election Novara reached 1.2 million people via Facebook.<ref name="GentWalker"/>
Along with other left-wing UK media outlets founded in the early 21st century, Novara Media's growth was in part due to a lack of trust, on the part of people in the UK who identify as left-wing, in [[mainstream media]] organisations.<ref name="AC"/> Novara's readership is typically 18 to 30-year-olds<ref name="bigissue">[[Ash Sarkar]] in A. Lobb, '[https://www.bigissue.com/interviews/novara-building-social-majority-negotiating-differences/ Novara: "Building a social majority is about negotiating differences"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121015/https://www.bigissue.com/interviews/novara-building-social-majority-negotiating-differences/ |date=2018-12-15 }}' (07/07/17) in [[The Big Issue]]</ref> and left-leaning people dissatisfied with more traditional [[News media|news outlets]].<ref name="JM">[[Jane Martinson]], '[https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/18/a-question-for-a-dystopian-age-what-counts-as-fake-news A question for a dystopian age: what counts as fake news?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215065940/https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/18/a-question-for-a-dystopian-age-what-counts-as-fake-news |date=2018-12-15 }}' (18/06/17) On [[The Guardian]]</ref><ref name="AC"/>
==Responses==
In 2015, the [[Institute for Public Policy Research]] described Novara Media as "innovative" within a "narrowed ... media landscape" that needed further reform as part of the UK's "architecture of democracy" to ensure "that all voices are heard in the political system".<ref>M. Lawrence and S. Birch, ''[https://www.ippr.org/files/publications/pdf/democracy-commission_Aug2015.pdf The Democracy Commission: Reforming democracy to combat political inequality] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214064641/https://www.ippr.org/files/publications/pdf/democracy-commission_Aug2015.pdf |date=2018-12-14 }}'' (Aug. 2015), [[Institute for Public Policy Research]], p. 29-30</ref>
Bastani attracted controversy in November 2018 for his position on the poppy appeal, an annual fundraising campaign run by [[the Royal British Legion]] for [[veteran]]s of the [[British armed forces]]. In an episode of Novara Media [[podcast]] "The Bastani Factor", Bastani described the poppy appeal as "[[racism|racist]]" and "[[White supremacy|white supremacist]]" because, in his opinion, the appeal "has a kind of triumphalist [[militarism]] to it".<ref>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Neil |title=Outrage as Labour supporter brands poppies RACIST in online rant |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/outrage-labour-supporter-brands-poppies-13556832 |work=The Mirror |date=8 November 2018 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126174644/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/outrage-labour-supporter-brands-poppies-13556832 |archive-date=2018-11-26 |url-status=live }}</ref> The comments attracted widespread criticism in the national media, including from the Labour Party's [[Shadow Secretary of State for Defence|Shadow Defence Secretary]], [[Nia Griffith]], who suggested Bastani should be expelled from the Party.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/media-centre/articles/en-gb/Sophy-Ridge-on-Sunday-Interview-with-Nia-Griffith-Shadow-Defence-Secretary |title=Sophy Ridge on Sunday Interview with Nia Griffith Shadow Defence Secretary |website=skygroup.sky |publisher=Sky News |date=11 November 2018 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126231746/https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/media-centre/articles/en-gb/Sophy-Ridge-on-Sunday-Interview-with-Nia-Griffith-Shadow-Defence-Secretary |archive-date=2018-11-26 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Launch==
Novara was founded in June 2011 by James Butler and Aaron Bastani. Butler was educated at the [[London Oratory School]], followed by [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] from where he graduated with a degree in English. Bastani was educated at [[University College London]]. Initially, Bastani and Butler hosted an hour-long live show and [[podcast]], called Novara FM, on [[community radio]] station [[Resonance FM]]<ref name="GentWalker">C. Gent and M. Walker, 'Alternative Media: A new factor in electoral politics?' in D. Wring, R. Mortimore and S. Atkinson (eds), ''Political Communication in Britain'' ([[Palgrave Macmillan]], 2018),p. 117-128: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00822-2_8</ref> as a kind of 'socialist [[night school]].'<ref name="FT">{{cite news | last = Judah | first = Ben | url = https://www.ft.com/content/0e99fc98-4872-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3 | title = Momentum: inside Labour's revolutionary movement | work = Financial Times | date = 27 April 2018 | access-date = 5 June 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200103222230/https://www.ft.com/content/0e99fc98-4872-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3 | archive-date = 2020-01-03 | url-status = live }}</ref> The intention was to feed into the leftist movement that had resulted in the student protests.<ref name="FT"/> They named the show after the Italian town, [[Novara]], in [[Elio Petri]]'s 1971 film ''[[The Working Class Goes to Heaven]]''.<ref name="AC"/><ref name="FT"/> The venture developed into Novara Media in 2013 with the involvement of others engaged in [[direct action]] in the student movement.<ref name="GentWalker"/> Novara diversified and, in addition to audio, written and video content were produced,<ref name="bigissue"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://euroalter.com/projects/novara-media |title=Novara Media |website=euroalter.com |publisher=[[European Alternatives]] |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703133809/https://euroalter.com/projects/novara-media |archive-date=2018-07-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> and Novara Media established itself as a multimedia project.<ref name="GentWalker"/>
==Editorial position==
Novara has a left wing editorial position. The organisation has frequently advocated the political idea of "[[Post-scarcity economy#Automated Luxury Communism|fully automated luxury communism]]", "a political vision which advocates a transition to [[post-work society]] where [[Post-scarcity economy|abundance]] is [[Common ownership|held in common]]"<ref name="GentWalker"/> – or, as Bastani puts it, "the full [[automation]] of everything and common ownership of that which is automated".<ref>{{cite news |last=Merchant |first=Brian |title=Fully automated luxury communism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18/fully-automated-luxury-communism-robots-employment |work=The Guardian |date=18 March 2015 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6cwd13e3N?url=http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/18/fully-automated-luxury-communism-robots-employment |archive-date=2015-11-10 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Ash Sarkar]], who described herself as "literally a [[Communism|communist]]" during an appearance on ''[[Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)|Good Morning Britain]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.itv.com/goodmorningbritain/news/piers-morgan-clashes-with-trump-protester-in-fiery-debate |title=Piers Morgan clashes with Trump protester in fiery debate |date=12 July 2018 |website=itv.com |publisher=ITV |access-date=27 November 2018}}</ref> subsequently defined communism being "about the desire to see the coercive structures of state dismantled, while also having fun".<ref>{{cite news |last=Hogan |first=Michael |date=22 July 2018 |title='That's when I lost my temper': Ash Sarkar on her clash with Piers Morgan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/22/thats-when-i-lost-my-temper-ash-sarkar-on-her-clash-with-piers-morgan |work=The Guardian |access-date=27 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728195535/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/22/thats-when-i-lost-my-temper-ash-sarkar-on-her-clash-with-piers-morgan |archive-date=2018-07-28 |url-status=live }}</ref>
At its inception, Novara Media's attitude towards the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] "veered between sceptical and hostile – but certainly not hopeful".<ref name="GentWalker"/> The media outlet's affinities, however, were drawn towards the Labour Party by the interest generated by [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s [[2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election|2015 bid to be the leader of the party]]—unlike many within Labour, Corbyn and his allies, [[John McDonnell]] and [[Diane Abbott]], were seen by those at Novara to be allies of extra-parliamentary political movements on the left, like those in which Novara Media's team were involved.<ref name="GentWalker"/> Novara was supportive of [[Jeremy Corbyn]]'s leadership of the Labour Party<ref name="AC">{{cite news |last=Chakelian |first=Anoosh |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/09/luxury-communism-now-rise-pro-corbyn-media |title="Luxury communism now!" The rise of the pro-Corbyn media |work=New Statesman |date=25 September 2017 |access-date=5 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110063520/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/09/luxury-communism-now-rise-pro-corbyn-media |archive-date=2020-01-10 |url-status=live }}</ref> and obtained a July 2015 interview with Jeremy Corbyn on the day he became the [[bookmaker]]s' favourite to win the [[2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election|2015 Labour Party leadership election]].<ref name="FT"/> Those at Novara Media believe Corbyn was willing to give interviews to them because they—in contrast to a mainstream media largely hostile towards him—took his policies seriously and believed them worthy of scrutiny.<ref name="GentWalker"/> A number of other interviews with Corbyn and McDonnell followed.<ref name="GentWalker"/> Other guests on Novara included [[Labour Party Chairman]] [[Ian Lavery]], Shadow Home Secretary [[Diane Abbott]], the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] MP [[Caroline Lucas]] and [[Chris Williamson (politician)|Chris Williamson]].<ref name="FT"/>
During the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 election]], Novara campaigned enthusiastically for the party, with co-founder Aaron Bastani predicting the party's vote share exceeding 36% on the eve of the ballot.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=aaronbastani |number=1204873782911021058 |date=11 December 2019 |title=It'll Go Higher }}</ref> During the election, Novara staff regularly took briefings from the party via [[Whatsapp]],<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Corbyn marshals support via WhatsApp |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-marshals-support-via-whatsapp-2j8qh95w2 |work=The Times |location=London |date=5 June 2018 |access-date=2 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102123537/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-marshals-support-via-whatsapp-2j8qh95w2 |archive-date=2020-01-02 |url-status=live }}</ref> and hosted interviews with Labour politicians, including Diane Abbott, [[Emma Dent Coad]] and [[Laura Pidcock]]. However, after the end of [[Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn|Corbyn's leadership of labour]] and [[Keir Starmer]]'s victory in the [[2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|2020 leadership contest]] Novara, like various other left-wing alternative media outlets in the UK, again took a far more critical view on the party's leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McDowell-Naylor|first=Declan|last2=Thomas|first2=Richard|last3=Cushion|first3=Stephen|title=How left-wing media sites have changed their coverage of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer|url=http://theconversation.com/how-left-wing-media-sites-have-changed-their-coverage-of-the-labour-party-under-keir-starmer-142686|access-date=2020-08-11|website=The Conversation|language=en}}</ref>
Novara offered varied perspectives on the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|2016 EU membership referendum]], with Bastani initially advocating [[Brexit|the UK's withdrawal from the EU]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://novaramedia.com/2016/04/18/why-the-left-should-vote-to-leave-the-eu/|title=Why the left should vote to leave the EU|date=18 April 2016|website=novaramedia.com|access-date=9 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126221652/https://novaramedia.com/2016/04/18/why-the-left-should-vote-to-leave-the-eu/|archive-date=2018-11-26|url-status=live}}</ref> and James Butler advocating a pro-remain argument.<ref>{{cite AV media | people=Novara Media | date=4 July 2016 | title=I voted remain, but ignoring the outcome would be terrible for democracy | URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0n3TpCLAcg | access-date=26 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102094011/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0n3TpCLAcg | archive-date=2017-11-02 | url-status=live }}</ref> Novara hosted multiple debates on [[Brexit]] related issues from a left wing viewpoint.<ref>{{Cite web|title=#EUref – Can there be a left-wing Brexit?|url=https://novaramedia.com/2016/03/17/the-fix-euref-can-there-be-a-left-wing-brexit/|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Novara Media|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Soft Brexit:Not so EEAsy?|url=https://novaramedia.com/2018/06/11/soft-brexitnot-so-eeasy/|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Novara Media|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A Second Referendum: the Debate|url=https://novaramedia.com/2018/06/25/a-second-referendum-the-debate/|access-date=2020-08-11|website=Novara Media|language=en}}</ref>
Novara "sets itself in opposition to what it sees as biased "mainstream media".<ref>A. Panjwani, '[https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/novara-media-pulls-video-wrongly-using-clip-from-2012-strike-in-report-on-catalonia-independence-vote-violence/ Novara Media pulls video wrongly using clip from 2012 strike in report on Catalonia independence vote violence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219044249/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/novara-media-pulls-video-wrongly-using-clip-from-2012-strike-in-report-on-catalonia-independence-vote-violence/ |date=2018-12-19 }} (11/10/17) on [[Press Gazette]]</ref> Its staff and editorial team believe traditional media outlets express a narrow view of politics and are out of touch with a segment of the UK public,<ref name="AC"/> have missed a shift in the UK's political mood,<ref name="NK"/> and has a corrupting influence on the UK's democracy.<ref>Aaron Bastani, interviewed on ''[[The Listening Post]]'', '[https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/05/british-media-coverage-corbyn-balanced-biased-170520081734337.html British media's coverage of Corbyn: Balanced or biased?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219134253/https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/05/british-media-coverage-corbyn-balanced-biased-170520081734337.html |date=2018-12-19 }}' (20/05/17) on [[Al Jazeera English]]</ref> In a 2017 ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' article, [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Today (BBC Radio 4)|Today]]'' programme presenter [[Nick Robinson (journalist)|Nick Robinson]] said Novara Media, along with other alternative media organisations, were involved in a "[[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla war]]" on the [[BBC]] and mainstream media as part of an attack on what they saw as [[the establishment]]—and that this was undermining public trust in mainstream news outlets.<ref>{{cite news|last=Nick Robinson|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/27/mainstream-news-win-back-trust-dissident-voices|title=If mainstream news wants to win back trust, it cannot silence dissident voices {{!}} Nick Robinson|date=27 September 2017|work=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305232331/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/27/mainstream-news-win-back-trust-dissident-voices|archive-date=2019-03-05|url-status=live}}</ref> Sarkar responded that Robinson had incorrectly identified the reasons people were losing trust in mainstream media, stating that the "political classes"—including the "establishment political media"—had been trying for a number of years to assure the public that they (i.e., the political classes) were "still responsible custodians of power, which after a disastrous [[War on terror|intervention]] in the [[Middle East]] and a [[Financial crisis of 2007–2008|financial calamity]] people aren't feeling any more".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/28/alternative-news-sites-attack-nick-robinsons-claim-of-guerilla-war-on-bbc|title=Alternative news sites attack Nick Robinson’s claim of ‘guerrilla war’ on BBC|last1=Ruddick|first1=Graham|last2=Khomami|first2=Nadia|date=28 September 2017|work=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2018-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416195236/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/28/alternative-news-sites-attack-nick-robinsons-claim-of-guerilla-war-on-bbc|archive-date=2019-04-16|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Staff and contributors==
The list of contributors grew to include [[Ash Sarkar]],<ref>L. Diavolo, '[https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ash-sarkar-communist-called-piers-morgan-idiot Meet Ash Sarkar, the Communist Who Called Piers Morgan an "Idiot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122094038/https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ash-sarkar-communist-called-piers-morgan-idiot |date=2018-11-22 }} (15/07/18) in [[Teen Vogue]]</ref> [[Dalia Gebrial]] and [[Shon Faye]].<ref>L. Corner, '[https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/83540/olly-alexander-says-will-take-queer-popstar-big-beyonce/ Olly Alexander says it will take a while for a queer popstar to be as big as Beyoncé] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215230132/https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/83540/olly-alexander-says-will-take-queer-popstar-big-beyonce/ |date=2018-12-15 }}' (15/08/17) in [[Gay Times]]</ref> Michael Walker hosts TyskySour, the network's news and political live streams on its [[YouTube]] channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/michael-walker|title=Michael Walker|journal=Jacobin|access-date=12 August 2020}}</ref> By September 2017, Novara was run by a core team of 15 [[Volunteering|volunteers]], and had about 200 paid contributing writers.<ref name="AC"/> The writers are external to the organisation.<ref name="GentWalker"/>
==Readership==
A July 2015 interview with [[Jeremy Corbyn]] on the day he became the [[bookmaker]]s' favourite to win the 2015 Labour Party leadership election attracted 60,000 views in its week of publication.<ref name="FT"/> Novara's self-reported [[Web traffic|site traffic]] statistics for the period of the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 UK general election]] were "modest": their election [[Liveblogging|liveblog]] attracting 5,500 readers and their most popular election-related [[Article (publishing)|article]] 3,700 readers. This increased during the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]]: the Novara website received a quarter of a million [[Hit (Internet)|hits]]; their videos on Facebook received 2.3 million views; and on the day of the election Novara reached 1.2 million people via Facebook.<ref name="GentWalker"/>
Along with other left-wing UK media outlets founded in the early 21st century, Novara Media's growth was in part due to a lack of trust, on the part of people in the UK who identify as left-wing, in [[mainstream media]] organisations.<ref name="AC"/> Novara's readership is typically 18 to 30-year-olds<ref name="bigissue">[[Ash Sarkar]] in A. Lobb, '[https://www.bigissue.com/interviews/novara-building-social-majority-negotiating-differences/ Novara: "Building a social majority is about negotiating differences"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121015/https://www.bigissue.com/interviews/novara-building-social-majority-negotiating-differences/ |date=2018-12-15 }}' (07/07/17) in [[The Big Issue]]</ref> and left-leaning people dissatisfied with more traditional [[News media|news outlets]].<ref name="JM">[[Jane Martinson]], '[https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/18/a-question-for-a-dystopian-age-what-counts-as-fake-news A question for a dystopian age: what counts as fake news?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215065940/https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/18/a-question-for-a-dystopian-age-what-counts-as-fake-news |date=2018-12-15 }}' (18/06/17) On [[The Guardian]]</ref><ref name="AC"/>
==Responses==
In 2015, the [[Institute for Public Policy Research]] described Novara Media as "innovative" within a "narrowed ... media landscape" that needed further reform as part of the UK's "architecture of democracy" to ensure "that all voices are heard in the political system".<ref>M. Lawrence and S. Birch, ''[https://www.ippr.org/files/publications/pdf/democracy-commission_Aug2015.pdf The Democracy Commission: Reforming democracy to combat political inequality] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214064641/https://www.ippr.org/files/publications/pdf/democracy-commission_Aug2015.pdf |date=2018-12-14 }}'' (Aug. 2015), [[Institute for Public Policy Research]], p. 29-30</ref>
Bastani attracted controversy in November 2018 for his position on the poppy appeal, an annual fundraising campaign run by [[the Royal British Legion]] for [[veteran]]s of the [[British armed forces]]. In an episode of Novara Media [[podcast]] "The Bastani Factor", Bastani described the poppy appeal as "[[racism|racist]]" and "[[White supremacy|white supremacist]]" because, in his opinion, the appeal "has a kind of triumphalist [[militarism]] to it".<ref>{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Neil |title=Outrage as Labour supporter brands poppies RACIST in online rant |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/outrage-labour-supporter-brands-poppies-13556832 |work=The Mirror |date=8 November 2018 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126174644/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/outrage-labour-supporter-brands-poppies-13556832 |archive-date=2018-11-26 |url-status=live }}</ref> The comments attracted widespread criticism in the national media, including from the Labour Party's [[Shadow Secretary of State for Defence|Shadow Defence Secretary]], [[Nia Griffith]], who suggested Bastani should be expelled from the Party.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/media-centre/articles/en-gb/Sophy-Ridge-on-Sunday-Interview-with-Nia-Griffith-Shadow-Defence-Secretary |title=Sophy Ridge on Sunday Interview with Nia Griffith Shadow Defence Secretary |website=skygroup.sky |publisher=Sky News |date=11 November 2018 |access-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126231746/https://www.skygroup.sky/corporate/media-centre/articles/en-gb/Sophy-Ridge-on-Sunday-Interview-with-Nia-Griffith-Shadow-Defence-Secretary |archive-date=2018-11-26 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Launch"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Launch</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Editorial_position"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Editorial position</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Staff_and_contributors"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Staff and contributors</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Launch">Launch</span></h2>
<p>Novara was founded in June 2011 by James Butler and Aaron Bastani. Butler was educated at the <a href="/wiki/London_Oratory_School" title="London Oratory School">London Oratory School</a>, followed by <a href="/wiki/Brasenose_College,_Oxford" title="Brasenose College, Oxford">Brasenose College, Oxford</a> from where he graduated with a degree in English. Bastani was educated at <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a>. Initially, Bastani and Butler hosted an hour-long live show and <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcast</a>, called Novara FM, on <a href="/wiki/Community_radio" title="Community radio">community radio</a> station <a href="/wiki/Resonance_FM" title="Resonance FM">Resonance FM</a><sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> as a kind of 'socialist <a href="/wiki/Night_school" title="Night school">night school</a>.'<sup id="cite_ref-FT_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2">[2]</a></sup> The intention was to feed into the leftist movement that had resulted in the student protests.<sup id="cite_ref-FT_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2">[2]</a></sup> They named the show after the Italian town, <a href="/wiki/Novara" title="Novara">Novara</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Elio_Petri" title="Elio Petri">Elio Petri</a>'s 1971 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Working_Class_Goes_to_Heaven" title="The Working Class Goes to Heaven">The Working Class Goes to Heaven</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-AC_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FT_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2">[2]</a></sup> The venture developed into Novara Media in 2013 with the involvement of others engaged in <a href="/wiki/Direct_action" title="Direct action">direct action</a> in the student movement.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> Novara diversified and, in addition to audio, written and video content were produced,<sup id="cite_ref-bigissue_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bigissue-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> and Novara Media established itself as a multimedia project.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Editorial_position">Editorial position</span></h2>
<p>Novara has a left wing editorial position. The organisation has frequently advocated the political idea of "<a href="/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy#Automated_Luxury_Communism" title="Post-scarcity economy">fully automated luxury communism</a>", "a political vision which advocates a transition to <a href="/wiki/Post-work_society" title="Post-work society">post-work society</a> where <a href="/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy" title="Post-scarcity economy">abundance</a> is <a href="/wiki/Common_ownership" title="Common ownership">held in common</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> – or, as Bastani puts it, "the full <a href="/wiki/Automation" title="Automation">automation</a> of everything and common ownership of that which is automated".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ash_Sarkar" title="Ash Sarkar">Ash Sarkar</a>, who described herself as "literally a <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a>" during an appearance on <i><a href="/wiki/Good_Morning_Britain_(2014_TV_programme)" title="Good Morning Britain (2014 TV programme)">Good Morning Britain</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> subsequently defined communism being "about the desire to see the coercive structures of state dismantled, while also having fun".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup>
</p><p>At its inception, Novara Media's attitude towards the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> "veered between sceptical and hostile – but certainly not hopeful".<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> The media outlet's affinities, however, were drawn towards the Labour Party by the interest generated by <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Jeremy Corbyn">Jeremy Corbyn</a>'s <a href="/wiki/2015_Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election">2015 bid to be the leader of the party</a>—unlike many within Labour, Corbyn and his allies, <a href="/wiki/John_McDonnell" title="John McDonnell">John McDonnell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diane_Abbott" title="Diane Abbott">Diane Abbott</a>, were seen by those at Novara to be allies of extra-parliamentary political movements on the left, like those in which Novara Media's team were involved.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> Novara was supportive of <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Jeremy Corbyn">Jeremy Corbyn</a>'s leadership of the Labour Party<sup id="cite_ref-AC_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-3">[3]</a></sup> and obtained a July 2015 interview with Jeremy Corbyn on the day he became the <a href="/wiki/Bookmaker" title="Bookmaker">bookmakers</a>' favourite to win the <a href="/wiki/2015_Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election">2015 Labour Party leadership election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FT_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2">[2]</a></sup> Those at Novara Media believe Corbyn was willing to give interviews to them because they—in contrast to a mainstream media largely hostile towards him—took his policies seriously and believed them worthy of scrutiny.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> A number of other interviews with Corbyn and McDonnell followed.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup> Other guests on Novara included <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Party Chairman">Labour Party Chairman</a> <a href="/wiki/Ian_Lavery" title="Ian Lavery">Ian Lavery</a>, Shadow Home Secretary <a href="/wiki/Diane_Abbott" title="Diane Abbott">Diane Abbott</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green Party</a> MP <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Lucas" title="Caroline Lucas">Caroline Lucas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chris_Williamson_(politician)" title="Chris Williamson (politician)">Chris Williamson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FT_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 election</a>, Novara campaigned enthusiastically for the party, with co-founder Aaron Bastani predicting the party's vote share exceeding 36% on the eve of the ballot.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> During the election, Novara staff regularly took briefings from the party via <a href="/wiki/Whatsapp" class="mw-redirect" title="Whatsapp">Whatsapp</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> and hosted interviews with Labour politicians, including Diane Abbott, <a href="/wiki/Emma_Dent_Coad" title="Emma Dent Coad">Emma Dent Coad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laura_Pidcock" title="Laura Pidcock">Laura Pidcock</a>. However, after the end of <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_leadership_of_Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn">Corbyn's leadership of labour</a> and <a href="/wiki/Keir_Starmer" title="Keir Starmer">Keir Starmer</a>'s victory in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Labour_Party_leadership_election_(UK)" title="2020 Labour Party leadership election (UK)">2020 leadership contest</a> Novara, like various other left-wing alternative media outlets in the UK, again took a far more critical view on the party's leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup>
</p><p>Novara offered varied perspectives on the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">2016 EU membership referendum</a>, with Bastani initially advocating <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">the UK's withdrawal from the EU</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> and James Butler advocating a pro-remain argument.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> Novara hosted multiple debates on <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a> related issues from a left wing viewpoint.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup>
</p><p>Novara "sets itself in opposition to what it sees as biased "mainstream media".<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> Its staff and editorial team believe traditional media outlets express a narrow view of politics and are out of touch with a segment of the UK public,<sup id="cite_ref-AC_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-3">[3]</a></sup> have missed a shift in the UK's political mood,<sup id="cite_ref-NK_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NK-18">[18]</a></sup> and has a corrupting influence on the UK's democracy.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> In a 2017 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">Guardian</a></i> article, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Today_(BBC_Radio_4)" title="Today (BBC Radio 4)">Today</a></i> programme presenter <a href="/wiki/Nick_Robinson_(journalist)" title="Nick Robinson (journalist)">Nick Robinson</a> said Novara Media, along with other alternative media organisations, were involved in a "<a href="/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" title="Guerrilla warfare">guerrilla war</a>" on the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> and mainstream media as part of an attack on what they saw as <a href="/wiki/The_establishment" class="mw-redirect" title="The establishment">the establishment</a>—and that this was undermining public trust in mainstream news outlets.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup> Sarkar responded that Robinson had incorrectly identified the reasons people were losing trust in mainstream media, stating that the "political classes"—including the "establishment political media"—had been trying for a number of years to assure the public that they (i.e., the political classes) were "still responsible custodians of power, which after a disastrous <a href="/wiki/War_on_terror" title="War on terror">intervention</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008" title="Financial crisis of 2007–2008">financial calamity</a> people aren't feeling any more".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Staff_and_contributors">Staff and contributors</span></h2>
<p>The list of contributors grew to include <a href="/wiki/Ash_Sarkar" title="Ash Sarkar">Ash Sarkar</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dalia_Gebrial" title="Dalia Gebrial">Dalia Gebrial</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shon_Faye" title="Shon Faye">Shon Faye</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> Michael Walker hosts TyskySour, the network's news and political live streams on its <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> channel.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup> By September 2017, Novara was run by a core team of 15 <a href="/wiki/Volunteering" title="Volunteering">volunteers</a>, and had about 200 paid contributing writers.<sup id="cite_ref-AC_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-3">[3]</a></sup> The writers are external to the organisation.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Readership">Readership</span></h2>
<p>A July 2015 interview with <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Jeremy Corbyn">Jeremy Corbyn</a> on the day he became the <a href="/wiki/Bookmaker" title="Bookmaker">bookmakers</a>' favourite to win the 2015 Labour Party leadership election attracted 60,000 views in its week of publication.<sup id="cite_ref-FT_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2">[2]</a></sup> Novara's self-reported <a href="/wiki/Web_traffic" title="Web traffic">site traffic</a> statistics for the period of the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 UK general election</a> were "modest": their election <a href="/wiki/Liveblogging" title="Liveblogging">liveblog</a> attracting 5,500 readers and their most popular election-related <a href="/wiki/Article_(publishing)" title="Article (publishing)">article</a> 3,700 readers. This increased during the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a>: the Novara website received a quarter of a million <a href="/wiki/Hit_(Internet)" title="Hit (Internet)">hits</a>; their videos on Facebook received 2.3 million views; and on the day of the election Novara reached 1.2 million people via Facebook.<sup id="cite_ref-GentWalker_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GentWalker-1">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>Along with other left-wing UK media outlets founded in the early 21st century, Novara Media's growth was in part due to a lack of trust, on the part of people in the UK who identify as left-wing, in <a href="/wiki/Mainstream_media" title="Mainstream media">mainstream media</a> organisations.<sup id="cite_ref-AC_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-3">[3]</a></sup> Novara's readership is typically 18 to 30-year-olds<sup id="cite_ref-bigissue_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bigissue-4">[4]</a></sup> and left-leaning people dissatisfied with more traditional <a href="/wiki/News_media" title="News media">news outlets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JM_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JM-25">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AC_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AC-3">[3]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Responses">Responses</span></h2>
<p>In 2015, the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Public_Policy_Research" title="Institute for Public Policy Research">Institute for Public Policy Research</a> described Novara Media as "innovative" within a "narrowed ... media landscape" that needed further reform as part of the UK's "architecture of democracy" to ensure "that all voices are heard in the political system".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup>
</p><p>Bastani attracted controversy in November 2018 for his position on the poppy appeal, an annual fundraising campaign run by <a href="/wiki/The_Royal_British_Legion" class="mw-redirect" title="The Royal British Legion">the Royal British Legion</a> for <a href="/wiki/Veteran" title="Veteran">veterans</a> of the <a href="/wiki/British_armed_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="British armed forces">British armed forces</a>. In an episode of Novara Media <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcast</a> "The Bastani Factor", Bastani described the poppy appeal as "<a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racist</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacist</a>" because, in his opinion, the appeal "has a kind of triumphalist <a href="/wiki/Militarism" title="Militarism">militarism</a> to it".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup> The comments attracted widespread criticism in the national media, including from the Labour Party's <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Defence" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Defence">Shadow Defence Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nia_Griffith" title="Nia Griffith">Nia Griffith</a>, who suggested Bastani should be expelled from the Party.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup>
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