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May 15, 2018

‘Highly unlikely’ journalists who ‘behaved badly’ in aftermath of Manchester terror attack were all from foreign media, says Lord Kerslake

By Charlotte Tobitt

Journalists who “behaved very badly” in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena terror attack last year are “highly unlikely” to have all been from foreign media organisations, Lord Bob Kerslake has said.

The Kerslake Report, released in March, found that the behaviour of some journalists “fell well short” of the Editors’ Code of Practice after the attack on 22 May, which killed 22 men, women and children.

Reported behaviour included families being offered condolences on the deaths of victims by reporters at their doors before they had received official notification that they were among the fatalities.

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