There’s more evidence of support for some form of statute-backed regulation of the press, coming from within the newspaper industry itself. The Press Gazette’s online poll found 51% of respondents in favour…

Responding to Lord Hunt’s speech to the Society of Editors Conference in Belfast, Professor Brian Cathcart, Director of the campaign group, Hacked Off said: This is tired old scaremongering from the industry…

The Guardian have published a letter from an influential group of 42 senior Tory MPs in which they show support for a limited form of statutory press regulation and reject the newspaper…

At the end of this month Lord Justice Leveson will announce the results of his inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press and his recommendations for a new more…

Some of the UK’s most senior and respected academics have today rejected plans put forward by the newspaper industry for continued self-regulation of the press. In a letter published in today’s Financial…

Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman MP has told BBC1’s Andrew Marr that Labour has rejected the idea that the failed system of self-regulation of the press be maintained in the wake of…

There’s new evidence of a widening gulf between what the public wants to see following Leveson – and the preferred outcome of the newspapers themselves. A poll commissioned by the Carnegie Trust…

Professor Brian Cathcart, director of Hacked Off, says: These allegations, if proven, would mean that unethical and unlawful practices in the tabloid press extended well beyond one newspaper group. It’s ironic that…

by Brian Cathcart There is overwhelming public support for independent regulation of the press backed by law, a new opinion poll shows. Seventy-eight per cent of those asked – in an unusually…

by Brian Cathcart Kenneth Clarke, the Cabinet minister without portfolio, has written to the Leveson Inquiry to say that the press needs a new, more powerful regulator that is independent of both…