A new report from the Media Standards Trust [pdf] has found that the press complaints handling body, IPSO, fails 25 out of 38 of Leveson’s recommendations for an effective and independent press regulator. Read the rest of this entry »
New Report: IPSO five years on: “fails to satisfy 25 out of 38 Leveson recommendations”
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Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Media Standards Trust: Election Unspun: Political parties, the press, and Twitter during the 2015 UK election campaign
7 07 2015
The Media Standards Trust has published Election Unspun: Political parties, the press, and Twitter during the 2015 UK election campaign. [pdf] This is a data-driven analysis of mainstream media coverage and political actors and influencers on twitter during the UK 2015 election campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism, Media
Media Standards Trust: Who was hacked? A New Report Investigates – Martin Moore
26 03 2015
Reading coverage of the various hacking trials (News of the World in 2013/14 and now Mirror Group Newspapers) you could be forgiven for thinking phone hacking was all about celebrities. Celebrities attract attention, attract news interest, and sell papers. This is perhaps why many of the news reports of phone hacking have concentrated on celebrities and are illustrated with photographs of celebrities. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Phone Hacking
Public Lecture: The UK Media and the Police, Roger Graef
27 10 2014
Roger Graef, the renowned documentary film-maker, journalist and criminologist, will give the second in the series of Media & Public Policy talks at King’s College London on the evening of Monday 10 November 2014.
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Categories : Media
Addressing the Democratic Deficit in Local News through Positive Plurality – Media Standards Trust
18 10 2014
On 9 October 2014, the Media Standards Report published a new report entitled Addressing the Democratic Deficit in Local News through Positive Plurality Or, why we need a UK alternative of the Knight News Challenge [pdf] Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Media
Can Newspapers Convince the Public IPSO Is Not a ‘Sham’? – Martin Moore
10 09 2014
As IPSO – the press’ response to Leveson – opened for business this week, newspapers may be wondering whether they will be able to convince the public that it is not just a replica of its discredited predecessor, the Press Complaints Commission. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media, Media Regulation
Media Standards Trust: How Newspapers Covered Press Regulation after Leveson
5 09 2014
The Media Standards Trust has published the first comprehensive analysis [pdf] of UK national newspaper coverage of press regulation following the publication of the Leveson Report in November 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Media, Media Regulation
Event: “Inhuman Rights: is the Sun right about the Human Rights Act?”, Helena Kennedy QC lecture on the British press and human rights
23 04 2014
Much of the UK Press has been highly critical of the Human Rights Act, and the anger appears to be rising in the run-up to the European Parliament elections and the 2015 General Election. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Helena Kennedy, Human Rights Act, Kings Policy Institute, Media Standards Trust
Categories : Legal, Media
Media Standards Trust Response to PCC Defence of IPSO
8 04 2014
The Media Standards Trust has submitted a response [pdf] to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to the defence by the Press Complaints Commission (“the PCC”) of the “Independent Press Standards Organisation” (“IPSO”). Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Media Regulation
Journalisted Yearly 2013 – Scandals, Scares and Sidebar Staples
23 12 2013
Journalisted is run by the Media Standards Trust. It collects information automatically from the websites of British news outlets. Articles are indexed by journalist, based on the byline to the article. Keywords and statistics are automatically generated, and the site searches for any blogs or social bookmarking sites linking to each article. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Journalism, Media
