Category Archives: media ethics

Cross-post: Press ‘omerta’ – How newspapers’ failure to report the phone hacking scandal exposed the limitations of media accountability

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Cross-posted on the Media Standards Trust blog, by Daniel Bennett and Judith Townend “[Nick] Davies’s work…has gained no traction at all in the rest of Fleet Street, which operates under a system of omerta so strict that it would secure … Continue reading →

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John Tulloch: Oiling a very special relationship – journalists, bribery and the detective police

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

This article by Professor John Tulloch, Lincoln School of Journalism, is an extract from The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial, edited by Richard Lance Keeble and John Mair (Arima 2012). The book will be launched at an event in … Continue reading →

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Open justice: forging the digital path ahead

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

In a nice bit of serendipity, I discovered yesterday that the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism’s ‘Justice Wide Open‘ event on 29 February will fall in ‘Open Justice Week’, a new initiative led by James Doleman, of the Tommy … Continue reading →

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Inforrm law and media round up: Siberian saunas, ill-advised tweeting and a blogging ASBO

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Please visit Inforrm for this week’s Law and Media Round Up [24-30 January 2012]. It features the first libel trial of the year, several ill-advised legal tweets and the latest from Leveson. Plus forthcoming events hearings and committee sessions. Read … Continue reading →

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Getting Lord Justice Leveson’s name right

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

“Don’t start me on the subject of misrepresented titles or names.  I suffer that to this day, but there it is.” That was Lord Justice Leveson on 20 December 2011, as noted in this year’s Inforrm media law quiz, won … Continue reading →

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Scandal! Tabloid editor wasn’t thinking about selling newspapers

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

As a former rather than incumbent editor of the Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie obviously felt he could afford to take quite a cavalier approach to his Leveson evidence (perhaps playing to what he said is his “punchy”, “sort of anti-establishment” character). … Continue reading →

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Inforrm blog: Law and Media Round Up – 9 January 2012

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Pop over to the Inforrm blog for my first round up of 2012. The legal vacation is not over until Wednesday but there is still plenty to report. Over the winter break Inforrm offered you a review of 2011 and … Continue reading →

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The role of the “public mood”

Posted on January 3, 2012 by

In my research I keep bumping up against the confusingly thorny – if woolly – issue of the “public interest”, a concept at the heart of media debates, the Leveson Inquiry and recent privacy and libel cases. There is surprisingly … Continue reading →

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Law & Media round up & a few bonus links

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Fleet Street is divided, with many bitter words being exchanged between journalists from rival titles, as the Guardian came under attack for the “unlikely” allegation that NoW had deleted messages from Milly Dowler’s phone giving her mother “false hope” that … Continue reading →

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Inforrm Law and Media Round Up: 28 November 2011

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Last week was once again dominated by the Leveson Inquiry, with oral evidence from a variety of high profile figures: some famous for their role in entertainment and sport; others thrown into the limelight by traumatic circumstances. Read my full … Continue reading →

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