Although there is much that is of value in the draft Code, there are many unresolved issues which call for further scrutiny. In Part 2 of this post want to discuss two of the most pressing of these. Continue reading
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Category: Journalism (Page 1 of 66)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presaged major changes in the governance of personal information including (and perhaps especially) in the UK. Nevertheless, three and a half years since it first applied (and despite proposals for further reforms now being advanced) even changes at the purely legal level are still percolating through. Continue reading
Terabytes of sensitive financial data have been stolen by cyber hackers and supplied, on a massive scale, to large numbers of journalists who appear to believe that there is a public interest in trawling through private information. Continue reading
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) – the so-called press regulator which in seven years has never investigated or fined even one of its members – appears to be paralysed in the face of a very obvious collapse of standards at the Jewish Chronicle. Continue reading
On 30 August 2021 it was announced that the privacy claim brought by Ben and Deborah Stokes against the Sun had been settled, with the newspaper agreeing to apologise and pay substantial damages. This was a complete victory for the claimants nearly two years after an intrusive and deeply upsetting front page article about the claimants. Continue reading
Almost two years after Coleen Rooney made the public accusation via Instagram and Twitter that Rebekah Vardy had been leaking details of her private life to The Sun newspaper, the case of “Wagatha Christie” continues to generate news coverage. Continue reading
The sham press ‘regulator’ IPSO has seen its weakness and cowardice embarrassingly exposed this month in the case of the serial misconduct of the Jewish Chronicle. Continue reading
After seven years, it is legitimate to wonder whether the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) will ever launch a formal investigation into journalism standards at one of its member publications. We may be about to find out. Continue reading
When suspects’ names appear in crime stories, their lives may be broken and never put back together. For years, people have begged The Associated Press, known as the “AP,” to scrub their indiscretions from its archives. Continue reading
A year ago, The Times newspaper published a news report that began: “The National Trust has declared its intention to ‘dial down’ its role as a major cultural institution and move away from being the custodian of the English country home.” Continue reading
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