Media Standards Trust Leveson Coverage Analysis
09.05.13
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 report ‘Analysis: Press Coverage of Leveson Part 1: The Inquiry’,...
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Media Standards Trust Poll Shows Lack of Public Support for Press Royal Charter
07.05.13
Media Standards Trust YouGov poll, 1st – 2nd May 2013 This YouGov poll, commissioned by the Media Standards Trust was conducted between 1st – 2nd May 2013. The weighted sample size of 1,851 GB Adults (aged 18+) ensures that...
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The press’ alternative Charter – neither independent nor Leveson
29.04.13
Last Thursday, three large newspaper groups (Associated/News International/Telegraph Group) put forward an alternative Royal Charter (pdf attached). This was presented as being closer to Leveson than the agreed Royal Charter of 18th March, and more independent. Our analysis has...
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The Press Royal Charter and Public Opinion
26.04.13
Yesterday several newspaper groups announced their own version of a Royal Charter to underpin press regulation. It differs in several important ways from the Royal Charter agreed by the main political parties and a majority of both Houses of...
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Churnalism US launches
23.04.13
Churnalism US launches today – a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Media Standards Trust. The new service enhances the existing UK churnalism.com, making it into a browser plugin that alerts you to possible churnalism while you’re...
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MST Leveson Coverage Analysis – Data and Q&A
18.04.13
Newspaper Coverage of the Leveson Inquiry – the Raw Data The three excel spreadsheets attached, and the corresponding links to versions in Google Docs, contain a dataset we have collected over the last few months on the coverage of the...
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Media Standards Trust response to Sunday Telegraph articles
12.04.13
Two articles published in the Sunday Telegraph by Andrew Gilligan (31st March and 7th April) contained statements about the Media Standards Trust that are incorrect. They also contained assertions about the 2009 MST report A More Accountable Press which...
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Media Standards Trust support for a high threshold for regulated publications
25.03.13
In June 2012, the Media Standards Trust – via its Press Review Group – submitted a report (‘A Free and Accountable Media’) to the Leveson Inquiry outlining proposals for how a new regulatory system might work. One of the...
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The compromise over the Recognition Commission to accommodate press concerns
23.03.13
1) The Royal Charter is in place of legislation The Leveson Report recommended that the press be left to set up their own self-regulatory body to replace the Press Complaints Commission. This regulator, it was then recommended, should be...
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The ‘Leveson Deal’ – what is it?
22.03.13
There has been a considerable volume of coverage in the last week about the so-called ‘Leveson Deal’, some of it quite high pitched, lots of it not entirely accurate. For this reason it might be helpful to try to...
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