Projects
Press Reform
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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Hacked Off
In the summer of 2012, Hacked Off became independent of the Media Standards Trust. It is now a non-profit company, based on Victoria Street, London. The director is Professor Brian Cathcart. For further information, go to http://hackinginquiry.org/. Hacked Off was [...]...
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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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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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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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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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Latest publications
Media Standards Trust Leveson Coverage Analysis
9.05.13
Read the report here: (.pdf) The datasets used in the report, and a Q&A on our research, can be found here The Media Standards Trust today publishes a...
Media Standards Trust Publishes Report on February 12th Royal Charter
1.03.13
Could Hunt-Black pass Royal Charter test? (PDF) MST Analysis: Could Black/Hunt plan pass February 12th Royal Charter test? Leveson said the Black/Hunt 2012 plans for a new regulator ‘did not...
MST submission to House of Lords Convergence Inquiry
27.09.12
In August 2012, the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications announced a new Inquiry, ‘Media convergence and its public policy policy impact’, exploring the nature and consequences of...
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...
