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The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial

Press ‘omerta’: How newspapers’ failure to report the phone hacking scandal exposed the limitations of media accountability

February 8, 2012   |   Posted by Daniel Bennett and Judith Townend

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“[Nick] Davies’s work…has gained no traction at all in the rest of Fleet Street, which operates under a system of omerta so strict that it would secure a nod of approbation from the heads of the big New York crime [...]

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On the Media: Celebrities, Super Injunctions and Phone Hacking

June 17, 2011   |   Posted by Laura MacPhee

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‘On the Media’ was an apt title for Wednesday night’s debate at the Frontline Club. An impressive panel explored three key challenges facing the modern British press: privacy protection, super injunctions and phone hacking. Chaired by BBC Radio 4’s Clive [...]


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