Leveson Inquiry hears of the ethical rot of Fleet Street
Alex Hern reports on the evidence given on the first day of the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking.
Media Integrity
The NUJ is the solution to the sickness at News International
Ruwan Subasinghe is a lawyer at an international trade union federation If bankers and politicians previously headed the public’s vilification rankings, journalists (and their employers) are now right up there thanks to hackgate. Many commentators have highlighted British journalism’s current ‘moraltest
Hugh Grant, Ed Miliband and Unite join to bury the Digger for good
Hugh Grant last night spoke at a fringe event held by the Hacked Off group at the Labour Party conference. Although self-deprecatingly referring to himself as the bait so that others could discuss the issues, he proceeded, “humbly”, to maketest
Exposed: The Mail-inspired Dispatches hatchet job on Blair
Tonight’s Dispatches on Channel Four alleging financial impropriety against Tony Blair is a regurgitation of discredited Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday stories.
The government must explain the alternatives to Conditional Fee Arrangements
The government should urgently explain the alternatives to Conditional Fee Arrangements, writes Sound off for Justice’s Jonny Mulligan.
The Daily Mail’s poisonous lies must be fought by all trade unionists
Trade union official Rick Coyle writes about how the poisonous Daily Mail, in a story on him, inserted false quotes, using it to suit their political agenda.
De Piero: High time Labour redefined its relationship with the press
Gloria de Piero has called for “a more realistic relationship” between Labour and the media, one in which newspapers’ influence “is kept in perspective”.
How to create a Telegraph migration scare story
IPPR Associate Director for UK Migration Policy, Matt Cavanagh, deconstructs the latest Daily Telegraph anti-migration scare story.
Cuts threaten to “destroy BBC Wales” claim NUJ
The National Union of Journalists has told Left Foot Forward reductions to programming threaten to “destroy BBC Wales as a separate entity”, reports Ed Jacobs.
Booker Prize winner “chilled” by the world of blogs
Howard Jacobson, winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize and a columnist for the Indy, last night described the state of the British media “as a matter of great concern”.