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Phone-hacking settlement makes legal history
Heather Mills has received one of the highest media privacy settlements in legal history, and received an apology from News Group Newspapers at the high court today after settling her phone-hacking case…
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Press Release: Islamophobia at The Times?
A report published today is calling for an independent EHRC investigation into The Times newspaper and its coverage of Britain’s Muslim communities, specifically in respect of three stories. The report looks…
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Press Release: Hacked Off analysis of media coverage of the Christchurch Attacks
Christchurch attack: Analysis reveals role of traditional media publishers in amplifying hatred Government criticised for exempting the same publishers from proposed online harms regulator Parliamentary Committees briefed on the role of newspaper…
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Hacked Off launches videogame about technology and journalists
Dan Hett, brother of Martyn Hett who was tragically killed at the Manchester Arena Attack in 2017, has created a videogame based on his own experiences of press intrusion to offer a…
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Press complaints-handler’s credibility falls to new low: IPSO fails to find “made-up” quote inaccurate
In an IPSO ruling published today, the complaints-handler found that a Times article with an invented quotation was nonetheless compliant with the Editors’ Code. The Times article alleged that, in respect…
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Government urged to rule out moves to weaken protections on editorial independence at The Times
Hacked Off and the Media Reform Coalition have written to the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Wright QC, to insist that he takes off the table any…
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Fatal domestic abuse reporting: new guidelines must be backed up by code change
The press complaints-handler IPSO, and the independent regulator IMPRESS, have adopted campaign group Level Up’s guidelines on fatal domestic abuse reporting. Whilst IMPRESS have vowed to consider changes to their standards code,…
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Hacked Off: Times/Sunday Times journalist leads criticism of News UK merger application
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Wright QC, has today announced that he is minded to accept News UK’s application to vary the undertakings attached to the…
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IMPRESS passes first cyclical Press Recognition Panel review for independence and effectiveness
Today, the Press Recognition Panel (PRP) confirmed that the IMPRESS media self-regulator continues to meet Leveson’s requirements for a regulator which is independent of the state, politicians and the industry. Commenting,…
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Hacked Off condemn role of some newspaper websites in publishing footage of New Zealand terror attack
The attack on two mosques in New Zealand last week was a cowardly act of terrorism, committed by an extremist desperate to give publicity to his brand of hatred. Disturbingly, his efforts…
