Newspaper groups, including the publishers of the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Daily Express, have delivered closing submissions to the Leveson Inquiry over the past two days. Today, the lawyer acting for Associated Newspapers said newspaper editors will challenge a new press regulator “at every opportunity” if they are excluded from decision-making. Jonathan Caplan QC, representing… Read more »
The Press Complaints Commission asked the lawyer of a bereaved family to draft a letter to editors asking their privacy be respected, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. Giles Crown, the solicitor for the family of Sebastian Bowles, a 11-year-old boy killed in a Swiss coach crash in March this year, gave evidence to the Leveson… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart The New Yorker’s recent long profile of the Daily Mail contained a passing reference to something that may be worthy of a little more attention than it has received. Noting that the editor of the Mail on Sunday, Peter Wright, had stepped down, writer Lauren Collins observed: “His replacement, Geordie Greig, is… Read more »
Nobody wants to fight a national newspaper for two years to prove libel. But that is exactly what happened after Juliet Shaw, then a freelance PR consultant, was approached to appear in a Daily Mail article on women moving from city life to the country. Looking for a fresh start, Juliet had moved back to Walney… Read more »
The editor in chief of the Daily Mail has returned to the Leveson Inquiry today to answer questions about actor Hugh Grant Paul Dacre was questioned by David Sherborne, counsel for the core participant victims, over a Mail on Sunday article claiming a “plummy-voiced executive” leaving messages on Grant’s phone had caused the breakdown of… Read more »
The editor in chief of the Daily Mail has been recalled to give evidence before the Leveson Inquiry this week. Lord Justice Leveson said he expected Paul Dacre, who appeared before the inquiry yesterday, to answer further questions about issues relating to Hugh Grant. He is due be asked about a Mail on Sunday story… Read more »
