Projects
Hacked Off
Hacked Off was founded to campaign for a public inquiry into illegal information-gathering by the press and into related matters including the conduct of the police, politicians and mobile phone companies. Only a full public inquiry, we argued, could put [...]...
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Journalisted
Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier to find out more about journalists and what they write about. Journalisted automatically searches UK national newspaper websites for articles, picks out bylines and indexes the links by journalist. [...]...
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The Orwell Prize
The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Every year, the Prize rewards the work – the book, the journalism and (since 2009) the blog – which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing [...]...
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Transparency initiative
The transparency initiative, run in partnership with the Web Science Trust, looks at ways of making the provenance of news more transparent online, particularly through the use of metadata. As part of the initiative the Media Standards Trust developed hNews [...]...
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Press self-regulation
In February 2009, the MST published A More Accountable Press, a critique of the current system of press self-regulation, including the Press Complaints Commission. In January 2010 the MST published its recommendations for reform of the PCC; 19 of these [...]...
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Why Journalism Matters
According to the final Digital Britain report, published in June 2009: “As the economic foundations of news publishers come under great pressure, especially in local and regional markets, there’s an imminent danger that large parts of the UK will be [...]...
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Churnalism.com
Churnalism.com is an independent, not-for-profit website built to help the public distinguish between journalism and ‘churnalism’. The term ‘churnalism’ was popularised by Nick Davies in Flat Earth News, and refers to articles which are essentially press releases without much added. [...]...
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Latest publications
Did the PCC fail when it came to phone hacking?
15.02.12
Many within the press have argued that the Leveson Inquiry is unfortunate and unnecessary, a political distraction partly designed to divert attention from politicians’ links with News International, and a...
PCC Statistics: A critical analysis by the Media Standards Trust
An analysis of the measurements of success of the PCC based on its own statistics, including an independent audit of the MST’s findings by Full Fact. The research in this...
Privacy: Submission to the Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions
15.11.11
News: MST director appears before Joint Committee on Privacy In May 2011, in response to week after week of headlines about the iniquities and impracticalities of privacy protection in UK...
The future of investigative journalism: Submission to House of Lords Communications Select Committee
8.11.11
Martin Moore: The real threats to investigative journalism The House of Lords Communications Select Committee launched an inquiry into the future of investigative journalism in July 2011. The Committee was...
