The story most papers missed: Dacre calls for statutory backstop
13.10.11 by Martin Moore
Talk about missing the story. The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, The Guardian, even Newsnight all failed to lead with the genuinely newsworthy aspect of Wednesday’s Leveson Inquiry seminars. The Sun highlighted Paul Dacre and Kelvin MacKenzie’s attacks on...
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Tabloid hacks and Trojan horses
07.10.11 by Martin Moore
The irony appeared to be lost on many of those in the room. As editor after editor at the Leveson Inquiry seminar lined up to say that the dark arts practiced at the News of the World would never happen...
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Watergate-Hackgate-Guardian debate
30.09.11 by Martin Moore
At the age of 67, almost 40 years after Watergate and 35 years after All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein is still full of spark. Speaking at the Guardian debate – ‘After Hacking: how can the press restore trust?’ –...
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Reform of press self-regulation – a spectrum of possible models
29.09.11 by Martin Moore
One of the few benefits of breaking a bone while you’re on holiday is that you get to spend time thinking. That’s what I tried to do last month, as I sat with my broken metatarsal raised above hip level,...
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Daily Mail complaint about composition of the Leveson panel
28.09.11 by Martin Moore
The complaint by Associated Newspapers to the Leveson inquiry that there is not enough representation of the tabloid or regional press on the panel is not unexpected, but nor is it entirely without merit. Given the inquiry’s terms of reference it...
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Why a professional registry of journalists is a bad idea
27.09.11 by Martin Moore
Politicians are a strange breed. One minute they are nodding and agreeing with you, and the next they say something which goes so against what you just said you wonder if they were listening at all. Ivan Lewis, shadow culture...
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Unanswered questions a ‘PCC Plus’ needs to answer
12.09.11 by Martin Moore
Roy Greenslade makes a number of valid and helpful points in his proposal to come up with a ‘PCC Plus’ (link here). In particular he notes the experience and conscientiousness of the current PCC secretariat (i.e. those who run the...
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UK coverage of the Arab Spring so far: Journalisted analysis
08.08.11 by Camilla Schick
The MST’s Journalisted Weekly newsletter gives a snapshot of the most covered (and least covered) news stories in the UK each week. In January and February, the news of the protests against (now former) Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dominated the...
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Churnalism Weekly: The Guardian, Tuesday 26th July
29.07.11 by Churnalism Team
In part nine of our weekly series (and the last before a short summer holiday), scouring one newspaper from one day this week for churnalism, we take a look at Tuesday’s Guardian. (NB headlines listed below are from the print...
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Self-regulation: recommendations for reform
25.07.11 by Thais Portilho-Shrimpton
Last week the Prime Minister announced the formation of a judge-led public inquiry into journalistic practices and the relationship between the press and politicians, and the press and the police. At the same time he called for a radical reform...
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