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Demand an investigation into The Daily Mail
The Mail targets innocent people: demand an investigation By Alice Watkins The Daily Mail, and its sister titles MailOnline and The Mail on Sunday, have been responsible for serious wrongdoing targeted at… -
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Demand an investigation into The Times
The Times and Muslims: a compelling case for an IPSO standards investigation By Brian Cathcart Four times in just 17 months in 2019-21 the Times was forced to admit libel and pay… -
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Has IPSO launched an investigation yet?
When the press-controlled complaints-handler IPSO was set up in 2014, the industry trumpeted what they said was its ground-breaking new power to commence "standards investigations" with "million pound fines".Over the last seven… -
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Paul Wragg: Stokes Family’s Privacy Claim – Why The Sun had to settle
On 30 August 2021 it was announced that the privacy claim brought by Ben and Deborah Stokes against the Sun had been settled, with the newspaper agreeing to apologise and pay substantial damages. This…
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Sex and Power
By Alice Watkins A new Channel 5 documentary series, Sex and Power [watch online here], reveals the extent to which some newspapers intrude on and damage people’s lives. Episode 2 in…
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Max Mosley: reflections from Hacked Off Directors
Max Mosley was a committed supporter of reforms to press regulation until his death on Monday, May 24th. His life is the subject of a recently-released biopic, “Mosley: It’s complicated.” He…
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Catfights, cultural gaslighting, and the persistence of misogyny in the media
Melanie Kennedy and Jilly Boyce Kay (Leicester University and College Union) Almost two years after Coleen Rooney made the public accusation via Instagram and Twitter that Rebekah Vardy had been leaking…
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IPSO Appointment Panel to be chaired by another politician: Hacked Off criticises role of politicians at complaints-handler
IPSO has announced that Lord Triesman has been appointed as Chair of the IPSO Appointment Panel. Commenting, Hacked Off Policy Director Nathan Sparkes said, The appointment of former Government Minister…
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News UK’s apparent plans to cut journalists’ jobs shows the threat profit-hungry owners pose to journalism. Will the Government step in?
In 1981, News International (now News UK) completed its acquisition of The Times and The Sunday Times newspaper titles. The deal made News International by far the most powerful force in the…
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IPSO caught with its pants down
By Brian Cathcart The sham press ‘regulator’ IPSO has seen its weakness and cowardice embarrassingly exposed this month in the case of the serial misconduct of the Jewish Chronicle. Although…
