By threatening to sue the journalism crowdfunding platform Byline, the editor of the Daily Mail isn’t just reminding us that he is a bully, he is also presenting a case study in why the Leveson reforms he hates so bitterly are exactly what this country needs. Read the rest of this entry »
IMPRESS Highlights Need for Post-Leveson Framework in Fight Against Fake News
14 03 2017
As the parliamentary inquiry into fake news takes on a new urgency, IMPRESS has recommended that the Government should complete the implementation of the post-Leveson framework for press regulation and explore a co-regulatory approach to the responsibilities of digital intermediaries in relation to news. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, IMPRESS
Categories : Media, Media Regulation
YouGov Poll: 51% think newspapers should be required by law to join an independent regulator, only 3% trust a regulator set up by the press
11 12 2016
An opinion poll carried out by YouGov for IMPRESS [pdf] shows overwhelming public support for independent regulation of the press, with a majority favouring compulsory membership of an independent regulator. There is negligible public trust in a regulator set up by newspaper publishers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: IMPRESS, IPSO, Opinion Poll, YouGov
Categories : Journalism, Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Max Mosley: Why I think that the Leveson model makes sense for everyone
18 11 2016
The great majority of newspapers seem determined not to belong to a Leveson-compliant regulator. They say this would amount to state control. But are they right? The Press Recognition Panel is significantly further from politics and government than the Judicial Appointments Commission, yet most would agree the state does not control the judiciary. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: IMPRESS, IPSO, Max Mosley, PRP
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
The Martyrdom of Press Freedom: What Recognition of IMPRESS means and why the press fears It – Paul Wragg
13 11 2016
Press regulation is changing. On 29 October 2016, IMPRESS was officially recognised as the UK’s first ‘Leveson-compliant’ regulator. This is a momentous occasion. But recognition has been met with uniform hostility from the mainstream press. The Daily Mail was not alone in decrying the event as ‘an end to 300 years of press freedom’. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: IMPRESS, IPSO, Paul Wragg
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Impress vs IPSO: A chasm, not a cigarette paper – Steven Barnett
30 10 2016
In his blog last week the editor of the Press Gazette argued that there was “barely a cigarette paper’s worth of difference” between would-be press regulators IPSO and Impress. If only. In truth, there is a chasm between the two which would take an essay to enumerate. Here are just four fundamental differences. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: IMPRESS, IPSO, Press Gazette, Steven Barnett
Categories : Journalism, Media, Media Regulation
News: Press Recognition Panel recognises Impress as an independent press regulator
25 10 2016The independent Press Recognition Panel (“PRP”) has today approved IMPRESS as an independent self-regulator of the press. At a public board meeting today, the PRP grant recognition to IMPRESS as a regulator within the meaning of the Royal Charter on the Self-Regulation of the Press [pdf]. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Hacked Off, IMPRESS, PRP
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Press and Counter-Press: Can publishers avoid the financial consequences of their choice to be regulated by IPSO? [Updated]- Simon Carne
21 09 2016
In a free society, a vital ingredient is a strong press – strong enough to speak truth to power. But when the press, itself, is a source of power, who is strong enough to speak truth back to them? Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: IMPRESS, IPSO, PRP, Simon Carne
Categories : Journalism, Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
We need a new kind of press regulator for a new kind of press – Emma Jones
23 08 2016
Readers are said to be resistant to it. The newspaper industry certainly doesn’t want it. Mad really, given that news is all about change. If only times hadn’t changed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: IMPRESS
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
Did the UK’s newspapers swing it for Brexit? – Jonathan Heawood
30 06 2016
On the face of it, democracy is the ultimate self-regulatory system. Don’t like your government? Elect a new one. Don’t like the European Union? Vote to leave. The people have their say, and our institutions are forced to listen. But this does not mean that democracy is a free-for-all. Without rules, the odds would be stacked in favour of the most powerful players and the loudest voices. Freedom for the pike would be death for the minnows. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brexit, EU Referendum, IMPRESS, Jonathan Heawood, Open Democracy
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism, Leveson Inquiry, Media, Media Regulation
