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The sorry betrayal of the victims of press abuse – Natalie Fenton
Last week the culture minister Matt Hancock announced the government’s response to the public consultation on the Leveson Inquiry and its implementation. The government announced it will not continue with the Leveson Inquiry Part…
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Select Committee Savages IPSO for failing to protect Muslims – Brian Cathcart
Of 8,148 complaints about discrimination in the press in a year, the industry’s tame regulator upheld just one MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee this week tore apart the press regulator…
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Press Sustainability Review: A Total Sham, Part 2 – Julian Petley
No-one would deny that both the local and national press are facing problems. In the past decade more than 300 local newspapers have been closed, and two thirds of local authority areas…
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Press Sustainability Review: A Total Sham, Part 1 – Julian Petley
The Government has recently announced a review into the sustainability of the press. According to its summary of the review’s scope, ‘the UK has always benefited from a strong, well established and diverse press sector’,…
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Hacked Off’s submission to the CMA in response to their Fox/Sky bid provisional findings report
Submission by Hacked Off in relation to the CMA’s report on provisional findings on broadcasting standards (‘the report’). Hacked Off campaigns for free and accountable journalism. We have the support of many…
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IPSO’s sham arbitration system
IPSO has announced what it falsely claims to be a new “Leveson-style” arbitration scheme in its latest attempt to mislead the public into believing that it is implementing the recommendations of the…
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Latest court bid by corporate press to wreck Leveson end in humiliation
By Brian Cathcart How can press bosses justify these costly legal failures at a time when print sales are in freefall and they are closing local papers by the fistful? …
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Should Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 be in force by now? – Christopher Whitmey
The following is a guest post and originally appeared on Inforrm’s Blog – it is republished with thanks. On 23 June 2017 the Department of Culture Media and Sport replied to a Freedom of Information…
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Seamus Milne and the ‘Mystery Blonde’: Five years after Leveson the press still ignores privacy – Hugh Tomlinson QC
On Tuesday 11 July 2017, the Times ran a story under the headline “Corbyn adviser Seamus Milne in clinch ‘with lawyer’”. The story was illustrated by long lens photographs of Mr Milne and…
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Mirror phone hacking: don’t let them fool you, most victims were ordinary people
By Brian Cathcart Famous targets get the headlines but three-quarters of those illegally hacked by newspapers were people you’ve never heard of. It has become routine: another batch of phone hacking victims…
