The Media Standards Trust’s analysis of the latest press industry scheme for self-regulation, IPSO, should be enough to sink it forever. It shows beyond doubt that, far from delivering the kinds of changes demanded in the Leveson Report, as its authors claim it does, IPSO is another poorly-contrived confidence trick by the big newspaper companies.* Continue reading
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Month: November 2013 (Page 4 of 9)
Five Royal Marines have lodged a challenge against a ruling that they can be named following the conviction of one of them for the murder of an injured insurgent in Afghanistan. Identification of ‘Marine A’ and three other Marines was prohibited by order of the court-martial which convicted Marine A of murder. At the time of the trial this order was explained in the press as necessary to protect the defendants from physical attacks. Continue reading
There are many figures bandied around for the levels of Twitter usage. Reliable statistics are often hard to come by. However, Twittter has, for the purposes of its recent IPO, provided a number of figures in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Twitter’s own analysis is that it has 232 million monthly active users and that that there are, on average, 500 million tweets per day in the world. Continue reading
Day 16: A senior lawyer today said today that it was “possible” he had given advice to Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group on phone hacking. Justin Walford, editorial legal counsel at News UK, who was being asked for a second time whether he had done so, went on to say: “I cannot remember.” Continue reading
In the case of Born Brands v Nine Network Australia ([2013] NSWSC 1651) the defendant, the Nine Network comprehensively won a defamation and injurious falsehood case brought against it by three plaintiffs who created and sold the baby “sleep positioner” Babywedge. Continue reading
The phone hacking trial of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others continued at the Central Criminal Court. This week saw Days 11, 12, 13 and 14 of the trial – with no hearing on Friday 15 November 2013. The jury heard evidence about the alleged hacking of the phones of, among others, David Blunkett, Prince Harry and Charles Clarke.
The phone hacking trial has now been running since 30 October 2013. The have been 14 days of hearings. There has been extensive online coverage (helpfully summarised by #pressreform and David Banks). How are national newspapers doing? Continue reading
On 12 November, the Grand Chamber issued its judgment in the case of Söderman v. Sweden (formerly known as E.S. v. Sweden), finding that Sweden had failed to comply with its positive obligation to protect the applicant’s right to respect for private life (Article 8 ECHR). According to the Grand Chamber, neither a criminal remedy nor a civil remedy existed under Swedish law that could have enabled the applicant to obtain effective protection against the violation of her personal integrity. Continue reading
The Twitter backlash against JP Morgan’s decision to invite its followers to “#AskJPM” this week illustrates the disconnect between some corporate social media teams and the wider general public. The online marketing event was designed to give the public the chance to interact with James Lee, J P Morgan’s vice chairman, in a Twitter Q & A session. Continue reading
The Media Standards Trust has today published the first external assessment of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) [pdf], the self-regulatory system put forward by sections of the newspaper industry. Continue reading
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