BBC’s Tony Hall: Journalists must do everything we can to combat suggestion we ‘peddle fake news’
BBC director general Lord Tony Hall made an impassioned speech in defence of a free press as he delivered the…
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TV reporter raped and killed in Bulgaria is fourth journalist murdered in Europe in just over a year
Press freedom groups have expressed their shock over the rape and brutal murder of a Bulgarian TV journalist whose last…
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Courts reminded to allow journalists to access lists after mistaken attempts to withhold details under data protection law
Courts in England and Wales are being reminded to allow journalists to obtain court listings after mistaken attempts to withhold…
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Why I worry about India’s increasingly fragile media
Indian journalism has a strong claim to be the most important journalism in the world. It is still partly free,…
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Sun says it ‘will not be silenced’ by Sir Cliff privacy ruling and will ‘accept consequences in court’ of reporting police probes
The Sun has said it will publish the names of people under police investigation “and accept the consequences in court”,…
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Archant group editor speaks out to defend rival newspaper over council blacklisting in ‘attack’ on press freedom
A newspaper editor who has been “blacklisted” by a local council has said he is “very grateful” for support from…
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Family of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia calls for public inquiry into her death
The family of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has called for a full public inquiry into her death. They accuse…
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Reuters journalist on trial in Myanmar rejected police offer not to publish Rohingya massacre story in arrest negotiation, court hears
One of two Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar for eight months said he rejected an offer to negotiate their arrest…
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