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Online open season on UK media regulation

Posted on August 26, 2011 by MediaWise Admin

9 August 2011 – A government-appointed inquiry team under the Lord Justice Leveson is to spend at least one year looking into UK press ethics and regulation following scandalous revelations about illicit phone hacking by journalists at the News of … Continue reading →

Posted in Code of conduct, PCC, Privacy, Public interest, Regulation

About bl**dy time

Posted on July 8, 2011 by MediaWise Admin

8 July 2011 – Crocodile tears from the Murdoch camp, from Downing Street and from the Leader of the Opposition will assuage none of the public’s concerns about the state of UK journalism and the unhealthy relationship between the press, … Continue reading →

Posted in Code of conduct, PCC, Press Freedom, Privacy, Public interest, Regulation

Painful lessons (but 60,000 smackers won’t even make NoW wince)

Posted on July 25, 2008 by MediaWise Admin

25 July 2008 – In his ruling against the News of the World in the privacy case brought by Max Mosley, President of Formula One’s governing body the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, Mr Justice Eady has done the public some … Continue reading →

Posted in Privacy, Public interest

What lies behind the front page apology

Posted on March 19, 2008 by MediaWise Admin

19 March 2008 – Abject apologies to Kate and Gerry McCann on the front pages of the Daily Express and the Daily Star are unlikely to be the last words on the subject. The apologies, which appear to exonerate the … Continue reading →

Posted in Code of conduct, Libel, PCC, Privacy, Public interest

Don’t lionise mass killers

Posted on April 19, 2007 by MediaWise Admin

19 April 2007 – What a pity the Daily Mirror (18 April 07) made the same mistake as other papers at the time of the Dunblane tragedy – running a front page in which a huge image of the deranged … Continue reading →

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The public interest should have no price tag

Posted on April 11, 2007 by MediaWise Admin

11 April 2007 – The servicemen who told rather than sold the story of their incarceration in Iran have more integrity than Defence Minister Des Browne, now desperately trying to hold back the floodgates against Fleet Street cant. If Vice-Admiral … Continue reading →

Posted in Chequebook journalism, Public interest

Time to rethink media regulation

Posted on March 7, 2007 by MediaWise Admin

7 March 2007 – The MediaWise Trust has called for a major rethink and public debate about the way print and electronic media are regulated, to take into account multi-platform publication and concentrated cross media ownership. Giving evidence to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Ofcom, PCC, Public interest, Regulation

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