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Matt Hancock makes himself ‘State Approver’ of press arbitration
By Professor Brian Cathcart (@BrianCathcart) A week ago the corporate papers were screaming blue murder about threats of state control. Yet now the government has given itself a real power over them…
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More Broken Promises, Lies and Betrayal
The Culture Secretary, Matt Hancock MP, deliberately misled the Commons when he announced the Government’s plan to cancel the second half of the Leveson Inquiry on March 1st 2018. Watch our latest…
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126 leading academics tell Parliament: back reforms to implement Leveson and finish the Inquiry
On the eve of the vote on Leveson amendments to the Data Protection Bill, over 100 leading academics have written to Parliamentarians urging them to back reform. Please find the letter…
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IPSO’s new “compulsory arbitration” scheme: why claimants are unlikely to use it – Evan Harris
The press industry’s consumer complaints body, IPSO, has announced a new “compulsory” arbitration scheme for national newspapers. This is the third version of the IPSO arbitration scheme. The first two versions have had no…
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A ground-breaking challenge to IPSO
IPSO’S First Court Test One of the many people who have seen their complaints about bad journalism in the national press swept aside is taking his case against the sham press regulator,…
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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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Very Forgetful Editors
Every Editor and press baron here pleaded the defence of incompetence 6 years ago. We still don’t know how much they really knew and who covered up what. That’s what Leveson 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…
