Channel 4 News chief correspondent Alex Thomson believes the post-Leveson environment is affecting broadcast journalism as well as newspapers.

He said there is a “sense of trepidation” in television journalism at the moment, with broadcasters feeling more pressure in the current political climate.

Thomson, who was this year named television journalist of the year at the Royal Television Society awards, claimed that the “alleged misdemeanors” of newspapers have been taken as a “blueprint” for the whole of the media industry.