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Leveson and the use and abuse of history
Is the Leveson Inquiry the first time a British government has intruded on press freedom in 300 years? Posted by Professor Justin Lewis Last week on the Today programme I heard a senior figure from the...
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“Keep Out” of press regulation
Posted by: Nicholas Jones Front page of the Sun 25.6. 2014 Rebekah Brooks’ acquittal on the charge of phone hacking will be interpreted by much of the newspaper industry as a vote of confidence in its...
View ArticleWill we ever see part 2 of the Leveson inquiry?
Posted by: Dr John Jewell With the news yesterday that Dan Evans, a former journalist at the News of the World and Sunday Mirror, has received a 10 month suspended sentence after being convicted of two...
View ArticlePanorama and The Fake Sheikh – Trawling Tabloid Excesses
On Thursday night Panorama finally broadcast its exposé of Sun on Sunday journalist Mazher Mahmood, also known as the ‘Fake Sheikh’. The programme was scheduled for Monday the 10th November, but, just...
View ArticleThe collapse of the Coulson trial and the police process
This week saw the latest high profile episode in the turbulent recent life of David Cameron’s former director of communications and former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson. At the high...
View ArticleHere comes the son: Sky’s not the limit for James Murdoch.
In a move that Brand Republic describes as ‘highly symbolic’ James Murdoch is to return to Sky, the UK’s leading subscription broadcaster, as Chairman. In what will complete a remarkable personal...
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Panama Papers: media attacks on Cameron may have more to do with Brexit than...
In an era in which public trust of traditional media is slowly rising from the low point of the phone-hacking scandals and the Leveson inquiry, the Panama Papers has brought us evidence of just how...
View ArticleNews UK, journalism and Politics…plus ça change
The reciprocal closeness in the relationship between journalism and power is a prominent feature of British political history. In times of war or national crisis media organisations are expected more...
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