Ashley Highfield is CEO of Britain’s third-biggest regional and local newspaper group, Johnston Press, which owns about 200 titles. He has written a pleading letter to readers of those papers that is a monument to corporate distortion. Read the rest of this entry »
Freedom and the Local Press: A CEO’s misleading message to readers – Brian Cathcart
16 02 2018Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Ashley Highfield, Brian Cathcart, Local Press, The Conversation
Categories : Journalism, Leveson Inquiry, Media
Don’t believe what you read: section 40 will protect the local press, not kill it – Paul Wragg
14 01 2017
Anyone interested in journalism who has been reading the UK’s national press over the past week or two could be forgiven for thinking press freedom is in serious jeopardy. It’s one of those rare occasions when Fleet Street seems to speak as one. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Consultation, Local Press, Paul Wragg, Section 40, The Conversation
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Implementing Leveson, the local press seeks to defend the indefensible – Hugh Tomlinson QC
29 12 2016
Over the past few weeks the national press has ramped up its dishonest and unprincipled campaign against the implementation of the Leveson recommendations. It finances and promotes something called “Free the Press” – which, among other things, offers a series of misleading and inaccurate graphics to place in anti-Leveson articles. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Consultation, Hacked Off, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Local Press
Categories : Journalism, Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Implementing Leveson, how the national newspaper groups use the local press as “human shields” – Hugh Tomlinson QC
20 12 2016
The local press has, over the past few weeks, been running an anti-Leveson campaign in response to the Government’s unfair and unbalanced consultation on the implementation of Leveson. The themes are familiar: local newspapers are the life blood of democracy, they didn’t do phone hacking but they will be financially ruined if section 40 is implemented. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Hacked Off, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Local Press
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Leveson, Arbitration and the Local Press: Three Misconceptions – Hugh Tomlinson QC
27 05 2013
Representatives of the local and regional press continue to express concern about the key Leveson recommendation that a self-regulator must offer an “arbitration service”. The purpose of this recommendation is to provide “access to justice” for complainants whilst reducing the burden of legal costs for publishers. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Arbitration, Hacked Off, Hugh Tomlinson QC, Local Press, Regional Press
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media
