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- 5RB – media & entertainment law
- BBC College of Journalism – Law
- BBC Freedom of Information
- Blackstone's Statutes Media Law 3e – resources
- British Journal of Photography – campaigns
- Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism
- Channel 4 Producer's Handbook – Media Law
- City Legal Research
- CRITique commercial law blog
- David Banks
- David Price Guide to Media Law
- Delia Venables’ legal resources
- Digital Media Law (US)
- Digital Media Law Project
- Don’t Get Fooled Again
- Drawnalism
- EPUK resources
- George Brock
- Guardian Freedom of Information
- Guardian Legal Network
- Guardian.co.uk – media law
- Heather Brooke’s blog
- HMCS glossary of legal terms
- I’m a Photographer Not a Terrorist
- Index on Censorship
- Informationa Rights and Wrongs
- Inforrm blog
- IP Media Law
- Jack of Kent
- Jonathan Hewett
- Journal Local
- Journalism.co.uk – media law
- Law Bore
- Learn WordPress.com
- Learnmore
- LSE Media Law Policy Project
- Matt Buck
- McNae’s student resources
- Media Standards Trust
- MediaPaL@LSE
- Ministry of Justice
- mySociety
- Ofcom Watch
- One Brick Court – news
- out-law.com
- panGloss
- PCC – links to regulators
- Photo Legal
- Press Gazette – media law
- Recent decisions in England&Wales Court of Appeal (civil)
- Recent decisions in England&Wales High Court (Queen’s Bench)
- Reframing Libel Symposium
- Robert Sharp
- ScraperWiki
- TabloidWatch
- Talk About Local
- The Private Lives of Others
- The Small Places
- UK Human Rights Blog
- Wannabe Hacks
- WhatDoTheyKnow
Category Archives: newspapers
Inforrm Law and Media Round Up – Rothschild, Twitter joke trial, Von Hannover and Sun arrests
I’ve rounded up the past week in media law over at the Inforrm blog. The coming week should be a bit quieter, with no significant hearings listed in the courts, the House of Commons in recess and the Leveson Inquiry … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, courts, media law mop-up, newspapers Tagged defamation, house of commons, inforrm, leveson, libel, rothschild, twitter joke trial, von hannover Leave a comment
John Tulloch: Oiling a very special relationship – journalists, bribery and the detective police
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
Posted in academic research, data protection, guest post, journalism, leveson inquiry, media ethics, media law, media regulation, newspapers, phone hacking, police, press freedom, privacy Tagged bribery, john tulloch, leveson inquiry, phone hacking, police, The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial Leave a comment
‘Contempt of a cosmic order’: legal risk of the Daily Mail’s 1997 “Murderers” front page
This morning, the Daily Mail was unusually willing to name check its rival titles, including the Independent, the Times, the Guardian and the Financial Times, for applauding the paper’s bold 1997 ‘Murderers’ headline (below left), which accused five men of … Continue reading
Posted in contempt of court, courts, defamation, journalism, media law, newspapers Tagged daily mail, libel, paul dacre, stephen lawrence 2 Comments
MPs and surveillance: 2009, not six months ago?
Tom Watson MP and member of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee has reported on his blog that Roy Greenslade has just revealed that six months ago, members of the DCMS Select Committee were the targets of covert surveillance by … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, media ethics, media law, newspapers, phone hacking, press freedom Tagged dcms committee, roy greenslade, tom watson Leave a comment
Leveson Inquiry – follow the tweets live
And so begins day one of the formal Leveson Inquiry, in Court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice. Proceedings will be streamed live from 10:30am today on the relaunched Leveson Inquiry website. The public can attend hearings although seating … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, courts, journalism, media law, newspapers, social media Tagged leveson inquiry, phone hacking, tweets, twitter Leave a comment
Journalists’ views needed for EU research project
MediaAcT is a European research project comparing media accountability and transparency systems and examining digital engagement, such as blogging. The study covers Austria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Tunisia and the UK. Funded under … Continue reading
Posted in academic research, journalism, magazines, media ethics, media regulation, newspapers Tagged mediaact, mediawise, press regulation Leave a comment
Cleland Thom: Laws that can criminalise journalists
In this guest post, Cleland Thom, a media trainer, argues that there is a “frightening range” of English legislation that inhibits good journalism There is an increasing range of legislation that can criminalise journalists. The alleged law-breaking by journalists at … Continue reading
Posted in comment, guest post, media regulation, newspapers Tagged cleland thom, journalists, news international, phone hacking Leave a comment
News of the World to close but the phone hacking story doesn't stop here
In the most dramatic development of the phone hacking scandal, since Guardian journalist Nick Davies broke his Gordon Taylor story in July 2009, it has been announced that News of the World is to close this Sunday after 168 years … Continue reading
Posted in media ethics, media regulation, newspapers, phone hacking Tagged news of the world, phone hacking Leave a comment
Rusbridger: ‘The Guardian has never yet been sued under any kind of privacy law’
You can read the speech for yourself here (it went online before he’d even delivered it, doing the conscientious live tweeters out of a job), but I thought it worth flagging up a couple of Alan Rusbridger’s comments from last … Continue reading
Posted in defamation, events, media law, newspapers, privacy Tagged alan rusbridger, defamation, guardian news & media, privacy 1 Comment
Scandal! Tabloid editor wasn’t thinking about selling newspapers
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 →