Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

Alastair Campbell was Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003. Before joining Blair’s team in 1994, he worked for numerous newspapers including the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Today. When giving his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry (30 Nov), Campbell talked about his experiences of the British press [...]

by Brian Cathcart What lies behind the Daily Mail’s assault on Hugh Grant? Could it be conventional piety? Hardly: have you looked at Mail Online lately? It is an artful mix of soft porn and celebrity gossip of the kind which, just a few years ago, the Mail itself would have dismissed as morally corrosive. [...]

Imagine being accused of something you have not done. Imagine losing your job and your livelihood, having your career damaged forever, becoming ill, and almost losing your house, for something that was not your fault. For Mary-Ellen Field, imagination is not needed. It is all very real. The intellectual property expert, who worked with Australian [...]

by Brian Cathcart The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, has joined the debate about press reform with a speech warning of the risk of throwing the baby of freedom of expression out with the bathwater of cruel and unfair journalism. Things are not as bad as they may seem, he implied. Self-regulation in the form [...]

Attacks on the Leveson Inquiry, and a thorough debate on corporate governance and new forms of press regulation marked the latest Leveson Inquiry seminars held on Wednesday, October 12, at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre. Eve Salomon, chair of the Internet Watch Foundation, chair of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a former [...]