Category Archives: events

The media regulation party continues…

Posted on November 16, 2011 by

There are two new posts over on the Inforrm blog, covering events this week. One on how the Leveson Inquiry is open to all via livestream and tweet; the second reports last night’s Media Society debate at Westminster University, ‘The … Continue reading →

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PCC chair: “Have you got that Guardian?”

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

The outgoing chairman of the Press Complaints Commission last night singled out the Guardian for allegedly misquoting her “non-stop” for the past three years. Baroness Buscombe, who will step down from the self-regulation body in the new year this week, … Continue reading →

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Open data at the Rebellious Media Conference

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

On Sunday I participated in a panel discussing Open Data at the Rebellious Media Conference in London. Javier Ruiz Diaz from the Open Rights Group chaired, and Chris Taggart and Martin Keegan talked about their fantastic respective projects, OpenCorporates and … Continue reading →

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Rusbridger: ‘The Guardian has never yet been sued under any kind of privacy law’

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

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 →

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Mooting in Oxford

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Twenty-seven teams from 18 different countries gathered in Oxford last week to compete in the fourth Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition organised by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, … Continue reading →

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Reframing Libel: the papers

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

In November 2010, leading academics, lawyers and journalists gathered at City University London to discuss the future of libel reform at the Reframing Libel event. A book of working papers is soon to be published. In the meantime, to coincide … Continue reading →

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IBC Defamation & Privacy conference

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Live blog at this link.

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Upcoming event: Defamation & Privacy conference, 15 March 2011

Posted on March 11, 2011 by

Meeja Law is supporting IBC Legal’s 18th annual Defamation & Privacy conference, which is coming up next week: 15th March 2011 Holiday Inn Bloomsbury, London It is, IBC says, for media lawyers “who need to be on top of recent developments … Continue reading →

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Notes on media law for the little guy

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

Yesterday the Brighton and Hove Community Reporters group kindly invited me to speak at their December meeting, which marked the project’s first birthday. I was there to talk about some research I did over the summer, about legal issues for … Continue reading →

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Video from Reframing Libel Symposium

Posted on December 1, 2010 by

Last month, as previously reported on this blog, leading lawyers, academics and journalists debated the future shape of libel reform at the Reframing Libel event at City University London. The BBC College of Journalism has kindly made its video footage … Continue reading →

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