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‘Enforced self-regulation’ – what can the Leveson Inquiry learn from Australia ?

March 5, 2012   |   Posted by Gordon Ramsay

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The Australian Independent Inquiry’s overall recommendation for a unified multiplatform regulator goes far beyond the remit of Leveson, but their model of ‘Enforced Self-Regulation’ provides some useful ideas for the future shape of UK non-broadcast media regulation. On 28th February [...]

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Lord Judge’s misjudged references to press self-regulation

October 24, 2011   |   Posted by Martin Moore

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You do not become Lord Chief Justice without being very bright indeed and awfully judicious. But if I may be so bold, I’d like to suggest that he might have made quite an important error in his speech last week [...]

Unanswered questions a ‘PCC Plus’ needs to answer

September 12, 2011   |   Posted by Martin Moore

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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 [...]

Independent interview with Sir Robert Worcester about Media Standards Trust

June 19, 2007   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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Ian Burrell interviews Sir Robert Worcester in The Independent about the state of the news media and why we need the Media Standards Trust. Sir Robert talks about how, though he ‘loves the media… he and a group of eminent [...]


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