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Reforming the media after the phone hacking scandal: a Red Pepper roundtable

If powerful interests are to be prevented from closing down the movement for wholesale reform of the media in the…..

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Just how much worse is Hackgate going to get?

Tim Crook reflects on the latest allegations concerning extensive use of surveillance by News of the World reporters.

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Press independence and the Leveson Inquiry

The post hackgate period as seen as a clamour from various sectors of the press warning of the threat to press freedom posed by the Leveson Inquiry.

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Interrogating contemporary news: asking the right questions

Natalie Fenton on news, plurality and the public interest

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The Leveson Inquiry – should we care?

Des Freedman on why the Leveson Inquiry matters for media activists

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Hackgate and the Communications Review – Two separate planets?

Des Freedman, senior lecturer at Goldsmiths and CCMR co-founder argues that the News of the World hacking scandal presents an unparalelled opportunity to radically restructure the British media.

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