In tabloid newsrooms today there were three priorities – one, look sad about Caroline Flack, two, shift the blame for her death elsewhere, and three, find another victim. Read the rest of this entry »
Meghan and the Car Park: Anatomy of a Royal News “Story” – Brian Cathcart
25 10 2019
On 12 April this year the front page headline of the Sun was ‘NOT IN MEG BACK YARD’. The report began: ‘Prince Harry and Meghan have infuriated Royal Household staff at Windsor by banning them from using a car park — because it overlooks their new home.’ Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, IPSO, Prince Harry, The Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
Ben Stokes v The Sun: gross intrusion or simple reportage? How media privacy law works – Rebecca Moosavian
23 09 2019
When Ben Stokes celebrated his part in the England cricket team’s World Cup triumph, followed by his incredible match-winning innings during the Ashes, dubbed the “greatest ever”, he could not have anticipated that heightened interest in him would lead to the later unwelcome unearthing of an old family secret. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Ben Stokes, Rebecca Moosavian, The Conversation, The Sun
Categories : Freedom of expression, Privacy
Case Law: Burgon v News Group, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice successful in libel action against “Nazi symbols” allegation – Persephone Bridgman Baker
7 02 2019
The case of Richard Burgon MP v. News Group Newspapers Limited and Thomas Newton Dunn ([2019] EWHC 195 (QB)) was a libel claim relating to an online article published by The Sun, which made allegations that the MP for Leeds East and Shadow Justice Secretary had joined a band that delighted in Nazi symbols. It was common ground at trial that the Defendants did not believe that Mr Burgon was a Nazi nor were there any grounds to believe as such. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Dingemans J, Persephone Bridgman Baker, Richard Burgon MP, The Sun
Categories : Caselaw, Libel
Blame MacKenzie, blame Murdoch: but don’t blame the subs – Simon McEnnis
21 04 2017
Kelvin MacKenzie has been suspended as a Sun columnist for an opinion piece in which he referred to Everton footballer Ross Barkley – who has a Nigerian grandfather – as a “gorilla”. MacKenzie also used the column to imply that the only wealthy people in Liverpool – other than footballers – are drug dealers. 
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Tags: Kelvin Mackenzie, Rupert Murdoch, The Sun
Categories : Journalism
The Sun and IPSO: It’s obvious who is the boss – Brian Cathcart
1 04 2016
Once again Rupert Murdoch’s Sun has lost a case before IPSO and once again the so called regulator has let the paper off with a slap on the wrist. All those promises that IPSO would stand up to big national newspapers are proving predictably hollow. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, The Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
The Sun Vault: the Death Star of British Journalism – Peter Jukes
23 03 2016
At the heart of the country’s best selling newspaper is a legendary 7 foot high safe full of ‘eye-popping’ material on public figures that won’t be published, suggesting a form of blackmail is at the heart of the British press.Comments : 3 Comments »
Tags: Byline, Peter Jukes, The Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media
Sun Four Trial: Court clears all journalists of all charges, chief reporter accuses paper’s executives of “breaking the first rule of journalism”
20 03 2015
The former chief reporter of The Sun has accused the paper’s executives of “breaking the first rule of journalism”, by revealing his confidential sources after being found not guilty of making corrupt payments to a public official. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bettina Jordan-Barber, News UK, Operation Elveden, Sun Four Trial, Sun Royal Editor, The Sun
Categories : Journalism, Legal
Five reasons why Ed Miliband’s flirtation with the Sun was a disaster – Des Freedman
18 06 2014
Ed Miliband’s decision to pose with a copy of the Sun’s World Cup special that was delivered to households across the country is outrageous on so many levels.
First, it is smacks of desperation. Miliband claimed he was showing support for the team and not the newspaper but who will believe him? Hitching your electoral fortune to making peace with the Murdoch empire is about as sensible a strategy as depending on an England victory in the World Cup. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Des Freedman, Ed Miliband, The Sun
Categories : Media
