Number 10’s plan to centralise comms seems designed to ‘instil fear that emasculates press officers’
Chief executive of the Science Media Centre Fiona Fox warns about the dangers of planned changes to government communications. Last…
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Online Safety Bill: New law will protect journalism from tech giant censorship
Social media giants will have a statutory duty to safeguard UK users’ ability to access journalism on their platforms under…
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UK Government ditches plans for greater openness with daily TV press briefings
The UK government has ditched plans for greater openness with televised daily press briefings. The move comes despite recruiting former…
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UK launches Digital Markets Unit watchdog for Google and Facebook with warning over Australia-style payments regime
The UK has launched a “tough” new online watchdog tasked with looking at how a code of conduct could govern…
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Daily Mirror political editor Pippa Crerar says journalists must not let Govt brush Covid failures ‘under the carpet’
Daily Mirror political editor Pippa Crerar said journalists must not let the Government “brush what’s happened under the carpet” following…
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Boris Johnson says ‘cowardly’ abuse of journalists must end as Govt publishes action plan
The Government has published its action plan to better protect journalists from threats of violence and intimidation, which includes every…
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Charges dropped against Kent protest photographer as Culture Sec grilled on press freedom
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has dodged questions about press freedom concerns in the UK after a photographer was arrested and…
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UK gov report links local newspaper circulation and voter turnout: Absence of journalism in some areas potentially ‘catastrophic’
Government -backed research has found that for every percentage point growth in a local daily newspaper’s circulation, electoral turnout on…
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