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Projects


Hacked Off Project

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

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

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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Value Added News

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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Self-regulation

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

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

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


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...

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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 MST’s submission to the House of Lords Communications Select Committee inquiry, ‘The future of investigative journalism’. MST director, Martin Moore, addressed...

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MST submission to Jackson Review consultation

8.03.11

(this was the original submission which has since been revised) News: Revisions to MST submission to Jackson consultation on civil litigation costs News: MST makes submission to Jackson Review consultation...

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A Fast Track Procedure for Defamation

17.02.11

The MST has drafted a proposal for a fast track procedure for defamation.We will be using this draft as a basis for discussion over the course of the next year....

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Latest news and blogs

Why did Leveson go soft on The Sun?

10.01.12 Martin Moore

Am I the only one who thought The Sun got off rather lightly at Leveson?...

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Journalisted Weekly

Costa Concordia, Newt Gingrich and cuts controversy

24.01.12 Costa Concordia, Newt Gingrich and cuts controversy

The Costa Concordia crash dominated the week's papers

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Orwell Prize newsletter

Entry deadline next week

13.01.12 Entry deadline next week

Orwell Prize 2012 closes for entries, Wednesday 18th January

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PCC Watch

PCC needs better defence if it wants to inspire public confidence

4.05.11 PCC Watch

The PCC has hit back at claims made by politicians that it lacks public confidence

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Events

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