Category Archives: newspapers

Inforrm Law and Media Round Up – Rothschild, Twitter joke trial, Von Hannover and Sun arrests

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

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 , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

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 , , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in blogging, comment, journalism, leveson inquiry, media ethics, newspapers | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

‘Contempt of a cosmic order’: legal risk of the Daily Mail’s 1997 “Murderers” front page

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

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 , , , | 2 Comments

MPs and surveillance: 2009, not six months ago?

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

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 , , | Leave a comment

Leveson Inquiry – follow the tweets live

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

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 , , , | Leave a comment

Journalists’ views needed for EU research project

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

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 , , | Leave a comment

Cleland Thom: Laws that can criminalise journalists

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

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 , , , | Leave a comment

News of the World to close but the phone hacking story doesn't stop here

Posted on July 7, 2011 by

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 , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in defamation, events, media law, newspapers, privacy | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment