By Martin Moore (Cross-posted from the Media Standards Trust)   When a Mail on Sunday journalist intruded on a private memorial service for Ed Miliband’s uncle the editor of the Mail on…

This briefing note aims to clarify issues about press regulation raised in the current controversy.   The Daily Mail will still be free to print character assassinations of the dead under Leveson…

by Brian Cathcart   It is now ten months since Lord Justice Leveson made public the recommendations of his public inquiry into the press, and it is two years and three months…

by Brian Cathcart   We all know that the Daily Mail likes to ‘play the man and not the ball’ – in other words it prefers ad hominem attacks to arguing an…

On 9th September 2013, a group of victims of press abuses wrote to the Prime Minister ahead of his appearance before the Commons Culture Committee, urging him to clearly reject the Press…

by Brian Cathcart Editors, we hear, are filing one by one through the door of Downing Street, bending the Prime Minister’s ear about royal charters and press regulators. You must do something,…

by Brian Cathcart Two surveys published in the last two months confirm in stark terms what other surveys and polls have been telling us: the public doesn’t trust the press. One is…

Responding to the Prime Minister’s comments to the Commons Liaison Committee regarding the Royal Charter for self-regulation of the press, a spokesman for Hacked Off said: “We welcome the Prime Minister’s reiteration…

Victims of press harassment have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister ahead of his appearance at the Commons Liaison Committee on Tuesday, calling on him to clearly and speedily reject…

By Hacked Off David Cameron gave clear assurances on numerous occasions that the interests of those who suffered at the hands of unscrupulous and criminal elements in the newspaper industry should be…