As the Leveson Inquiry shapes up and witness hearings approach, reporters have been wondering about how much legal protection they have to cover the proceedings. Questions have arisen around the issues of…

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…

Read a full transcript of the interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme (2 November 2011) below: Sarah Montague (SM): At start of the year, you could scarcely look at a newspaper…

You do not become Lord Chief Justice without being very bright indeed and awfully judicious. But if I may be so bold, I’d like to suggest that he might have made quite…

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…

*From Media Standards Trust Talk about missing the story. The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, The Guardian, even Newsnight all failed to lead with the genuinely newsworthy aspect of Wednesday’s Leveson…

*From Media Standards Trust The irony appeared to be lost on many of those in the room. As editor after editor at the Leveson Inquiry seminar lined up to say that the…

*From Media Standards Trust The complaint by Associated Newspapers to the Leveson inquiry that there is not enough representation of the tabloid or regional press on the panel is not unexpected, but…

Politicians are a strange breed. One minute they are nodding and agreeing with you, and the next they say something which goes so against what you just said you wonder if they…

by Brian Cathcart Sir Harry Evans deserves credit for organising this week’s debate about ‘the press we deserve’ in central London. It was deeply depressing, however, to see a panel of the…