Editors unite in bid to stop anti-SLAPP bill being ‘ultimately redundant’

Letter co-ordinated by the Anti-SLAPP Coalition says new bill will still result in uncertainty.

Editors who signed letter about anti-SLAPP bill. Clockwise from top left: DMG Media editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker, Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins, Times editor Tony Gallagher, and Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni — Clockwise from top left: DMG Media editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker, Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins, Times editor Tony Gallagher, and Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni

Editors from the likes of the Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph have united in an attempt to bolster an anti-SLAPP bill going through Parliament.

More than 60 editors, writers, publishers, lawyers and academics signed a letter to Justice Secretary Alex Chalk and his colleagues urging an amendment to stop the bill from becoming “ineffective, inaccessible, and ultimately redundant” at cracking down on threatening lawsuits aimed at stifling reporting in the public interest.

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