John Pilger, Will Hutton, Bob Geldof and Danny Boyle among 200 leading figures urging press to back Royal Charter
More than 200 leading UK cultural figures have now signed a declaration urging UK press owners to embrace the cross-party…
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World editors urge UK Government to ‘step back’ over press regulation and attacks on Guardian
The first ever World Association of Newspapers press freedom mission to the UK has urged the Government to back away…
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Global press freedom groups tell Cameron: Scrap press regulation laws and lay off The Guardian
An international group of press freedom organisations has urged David Cameron to scrap the Royal Charter-backed system of press regulation…
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Does IPSO comply with Leveson’s recommendations? Breaking five out of 47 isn’t bad
Some MPs on the culture select committee clearly thought Lord Hunt and Michael McManus from the PCC were taking them…
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MP tells PCC chair Lord Hunt: ‘You’re being paid £180k for three days a week to shimmy and shift the sands’
Lord Hunt today told MPs he was paid £180,000 for a three-day week as chairman of the PCC and that…
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Maria Miller ‘happy’ with current situation where most publishers back IPSO regulator, press freedom mission told
Culture secretary Maria Miller reportedly accepts that the situation where most publishers have signed up to IPSO and none have…
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International editors warn UK Government sending ‘negative message’ to world on press freedom
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA) two-day press freedom mission to the UK concluded with a warning that changes to…
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Government thwarts Sunday Telegraph bid to publish Royal Charter human rights briefing
The Government has refused to release official advice it has received about the legality of its new planned press regulator…
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