Paul Dacre attacks Mr Justice Eady over privacy curbs
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has launched an attack on High Court judge Mr Justice Eady – accusing him of using the Human Rights Act to ‘bring in a privacy law by the back door’.
• Paul Dacre speech: Full transcript
• Lord Falconer defends Mr Justice Eady
• Media lawyers hit back at Dacre’s attack on Justice Eady
• Max Mosley: Dacre privacy attack was ‘disingenuous’
Madeleine McCann spokesman condemns ‘lazy’ reporting
British journalists covering the disappearance of Madeleine McCann were ‘lazy’ and ‘distorted’ stories, according to the spokesman for parents Kate and Gerry McCann.
Robert Peston: Media were ‘complicit’ in talking up debt
The media was ‘in a sense complicit’ in talking up an economic boom in a bid to make the most of the lucrative property advertising market, BBC business editor Robert Peston has said.
Report finds new journalists lacking key skills
More than 70 per cent of media employers believe there is a gap between the skills found in new-entrant journalists and those needed to run their news organisation.
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News groups will find it ‘massively difficult’ to fully integrate their print and online sides ‘until the day that newspapers die’, Financial Times managing editor Hugh Carnegy has said.
Defence chief says ‘rapid’ media must not lose perspective
The chief of the defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup, has described media coverage of defence stories as ‘pretty balanced’ – but said more needed to be done to provide context and background.
Times reporter picks up award for Iraq interpreter story
Times journalist Deborah Haynes has won the inaugural Rat Up A Drainpipe award for her investigation into the plight of Iraqi interpreters who had received death threats for collaborating with British forces.
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Journalism training bodies agree to work together
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Malvern Gazette reporter takes top NCTJ award
Malvern Gazette journalist Tarik Al Rasheed has been crowned reporter of the year at the NCTJ 2008 Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
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