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Hacking trial: Coulson-Brooks affair assists Crown’s conspiracy claim

By Martin Hickman, 31 October 2013 The News of the World ordered the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone on the same day it sympathised with her distraught parents’ anguish, the phone hacking trial heard today. Milly went missing near her home in Walton on Thames, Surrey, in March 2002, sparking a large public police investigation and a parallel, covert one at the News of the World, the Old Bailey was told.

Power in the Dock

MEDIA REFORM COALITION RESPONDS TO PM’S THREATS TO GUARDIAN As five senior journalists stand in the dock of the Old…..

Double standards? Why unsupported claims of ‘threats to national security’ are the real threats to press freedom

By Justin Schlosberg Last week, MP’s announced plans to formally inquire into the Guardian’s coverage of the Edward Snowden leaks,…..

Des Freedman: The Press’ Terror of Voluntary Regulation

Weekends are supposed to be for calm reflection of the week that has passed and some rest before the challenges…..

Westminster Media Forum on Media Ownership, Plurality and Convergence

When: 21 November 2013, 08:30 – 13:00 Where: Johnnie Walker Room, The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR…..

Time for government to stand firm on press regulation

Written by Julian Petley, Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University. Republished from The Conversation. On Monday evening, the BBC’s…..

Lesson From History – A Message to David Cameron

Written by Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster. Reposted with kind permission from Huff Post UK……

Natalie Bennett: ‘How to Tackle Press Power’

Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party. She was the editor of The Guardian Weekly between 2007 and 2012 and has previously…..

The Mail and intrusion into grief – an isolated incident?

Written by Martin Moore. Reposted with kind permission from the Media Standards Trust. When a Mail on Sunday journalist intruded on…..

Professor James Curran comments on the Daily Mail

Letter to the Evening Standard The Daily Mail’s attack on Ed Miliband’s father as ‘the man who hated Britain’ because…..

The Daily Mail knows all about ‘hate’

Des Freedman argues for a full and open debate about concentrated media power. In light of the forthcoming consideration by the…..

Barack Obama takes on Rupert Murdoch, the last media baron

This article originally appeared at the Daily Mirror. President Obama has had enough of Rupert Murdoch. His target is the…..

Miranda detention part two: who decides on the public interest?

Yesterday we wrote about why the detention of David Miranda under anti-terror legislation was so different from the arrest of…..

Miranda detention, part 1: Why we should be concerned

The detention of a journalist under something called the Terrorism Act should raise eyebrows whatever the situation. It does not…..

First they came for whistleblowers, then they came for journalists

By Justin Schlosberg This article originally appeared at the Huffington Post and is reposted here with their kind permission. The…..

Croatia’s intriguing experiment with ‘public commissioning’

This article was written by Dan Hind and originally published on Al Jazeera. It is reposted here with kind permission. In 2010…..

When “measuring” is a substitute for action: the government’s consultation on media ownership

By Des Freedman Right in the middle of the summer, and without much fanfare, the Department for Culture, Media and…..

A tale of two British summers: phone hacking and a royal baby

This post by Des Freedman was originally published at Open Democracy, and is reprinted with their kind permission. The royal…..

Two faces of Rupert Murdoch – here’s our comment

Remember our post on the two faces of Rupert Murdoch, presented without comment, in which we compared the mogul’s letter…..

Professor James Curran: “We want to shrink the media moguls”

This post was originally written by Joe Sandler Clarke at the Huffington Post, and is reprinted with their kind permission. Two more…..

Two faces of Rupert Murdoch, presented without comment

Then: “I was shocked and appalled by recent allegations concerning the News of the World and I am deeply sorry…..

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