Jon Slattery provided a guest post to Meeja Law about the ill-effect of (necessary) balanced court reporting for the families of murder victims. Index on Censorship’s privacy debate on Tuesday evening (June 28) – featuring Max Mosley – drew the crowds; I reported it for Index, Inforrm and the PA Media Lawyer.

Libel

• Press Gazette>>Lebedev considering legal action against The Guardian
• Inforrm>>McEvedys’ response to the Draft Defamation Bill consultation
• Inforrm>>Case Law: Thornton v Telegraph Media Group – the slow decline of the libel jury trial continue

Privacy

• Inforrm>>News – Debate: Privacy, free speech and the feral press – Judith Townend
• Press Gazette>>Max Mosley: privacy law ‘heavily’ favours the media
• Index on Censorship>> Are privacy injunctions a necessary evil?
• Privacy debate audio
• Index on Censorship>> John Kampfner: Evidence to the BBC Radio 4 PM Privacy Commission
• LSE MediaPal>>Where Next for Privacy Law?
• Laura MacPhee>> Injunctions are a necessary evil: Privacy, free speech and a feral press

Freedom of information

• Index on Censorship>> Talking a good game over Freedom of Information

Data Protection

• Out-Law.com>>EU customer cloud data could be accessed by US terrorism investigators, Microsoft says

Media regulation

• Out-Law.com>>Complaints about BBC accuracy and impartiality should be appealable to Ofcom, say Lords

Media standards

• Tabloid Watch>> Transforming old quotes into a ‘new’ feature
• Global Voices>> Podcast: Who do we believe online?
• David Allen Green>> Johann Hari and media standards
• Press Gazette>>Gideon Levy backs Johann Hari in plagiarism row
• Media Guardian>>Independent writer’s admission highlights news copyright issues | David Banks
• MST>> Media Standards Trust response to Johann Hari allegations
• Stephen Baxter>> We can’t let Hari off the hook because “he’s one of us”
• Johann Hari>> My journalism is at the centre of a storm. This is what I have learned
• BBC Radio 4 The Media Show>> Johann Hari, House of Lords & Levi Bellfield case

Phone hacking

• Media Guardian>>Phone hacking: Press Association to support Laura Elston
• Press Gazette>>Phone hacking: lawyers get access to ‘Mulcaire archive’
• Inforrm>>News: Phone hacking, disclosure, settlement and another arrest

Contempt

• Media Guardian>>Sun and Mirror face contempt trial
• Media Guardian>>’Avalanche’ of Bellfield stories threaten to put editors in dock for contempt

Court reporting

• HTFP>> Daily’s court challenge sees parents of truants named
• HTFP>> Trainee reporter’s unexpected court order success

International press freedom

• NY Review of Books>> China’s Political Prisoners: True Confessions? by Jonathan Mirsky
• Global Voices Advocacy>> Malaysian blogger defamation case – cause for concern
• Dinah Gardner>> Ahead of Party’s 90th birthday, China poisons the internet

Link of the week

• Global Voices’ Threatened Voices project: “A collaborative mapping project to build a database of bloggers who have been threatened, arrested or killed for speaking out online and to draw attention to the campaigns to free them”.

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