This two-day event brings together leading media academics, activists and organisers to critically examine current trends and trajectories in global worlds of media work, and to present strategies and solutions for improving and enhancing conditions of media production. The motif of ‘critical capacity’ invites reflection on both the current inequalities, intensities and extremities of over-loaded and under-rewarded media work and the modes of redress, advocacy and action currently available to the media worker. The format is exploratory, dialogic and inclusive – a forum for media academics, activists, organisers and publics to come together and explore their own capacities of critical action. The event will have an array of invited speakers, rather than an open CFP. It will combine academics with industry and media union representatives, and with activists, adopting a broadly internationalist view. The event will however be open to around 75 members of the public and IAMCR participants and advance registration will be required. More information will be posted as it becomes available.