While broadcasters and social media platforms are overseen by Ofcom, the rest of the media – newspapers and their websites – remain unregulated. Instead, most newspaper publishers are in IPSO, a complaints body controlled by the press itself, which has a dire record of failing to protect the public since it was established over ten years ago. Continue reading
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Researchers at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford have published a report examining public debate around the role of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). They found that discussion of the ECHR has been widespread in recent years, and particularly in relation to how it applies to immigration control. Continue reading
The 8 week trial in the case of Duke of Sussex and Lord Watson v News Group Newspapers was due to commence before Mr Justice Fancourt in Rolls Building, Court 30 today. There was, however, a delay and the trial did not begin. Continue reading
Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 was intended to incentivise newspapers to join an independent regulator, by protecting regulated publishers from costs while directing costs against unregulated publishers (where the court finds it reasonable and just to do so). In 2018, the previous Government chose not to bring section 40 into force; claiming it would financially ruin publishers. Continue reading
What is a ‘supermajority’? The terms is used to refer to a significant majority; perhaps two-thirds. To win a majority this big, would clearly be a remarkable result for the Labour Party in this General Election. But, in the UK’s House of Commons, such a majority has no value in and of itself. Continue reading
A Hacked Off analysis of Government transparency data has revealed the extent of press and Government interactions over the 12 month period from September 2022 to September 2023 (which is when the most recently published transparency data runs to). Continue reading
The Conservative MP and candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has pledged to repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 as a matter of “urgency”. Continue reading
If IPSO is a tough regulator then why is it so soft on intrusions into grief and shock? – Paul Wragg
IPSO should be applauded for its phenomenal success in convincing gullible politicians that the press is ‘properly regulated’. IPSO’s chair, Lord Faulks, speaking in the House of Lords (he is a politician, after all) in December 2021 was happy enough to embellish further to say that not only are the press ‘properly regulated’ but also ‘accountable’. Continue reading
The traditional press has two roles, one as a check on public figures, and another as a form of entertainment. Increasingly, as Franklin argues: Continue reading
Yesterday in the House of Commons the Government was skewered over its plans to allow extremists or dictators to set up front organisations in the UK and brand themselves “news publishers”, to benefit from a wide ranging and poorly drafted exemption to the Online Safety Bill. Several newspapers have rushed to defend the loophole because they themselves would benefit from. Continue reading
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