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Conservative Manifesto: Section 40 scrapped and action promised on central concern of Press Gazette Duopoly campaign

The Conservatives have pledged to repeal Section 40 and take steps to ensure news publishers are “appropriately rewarded” for content…

By Dominic Ponsford

Oliver Letwin: Government faces ‘trench warfare’ with the Lords if it does not enact Section 40

If the Government fails to enact Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act it is going face “trench warfare”…

By Dominic Ponsford

Government allows digital giants to publish with impunity while proposing to regulate newspapers out of existence

Four years after publication of the Leveson report Press Gazette readers could be forgiven for turning away from yet another…

By Dominic Ponsford

Culture Secretary Karen Bradley says commencing Section 40 could undermine ‘vibrant free local press’

Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has acknowledged the threat that Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act presents to a…

By Dominic Ponsford

Sir Alan Moses: Free press in the UK is ‘doomed’ if it allows Government to ‘corral’ it into state-backed regulator

The free press in the UK is “doomed” if it allows itself to be “corralled” by the Government into a…

By Dominic Ponsford

It has funding of £3m, eight staff and currently no one to regulate: Meet the Press Recognition Panel

Riding up in the glass lift at the Richard Rogers-designed offices of the Press Recognition Panel in the City of…

By Dominic Ponsford

Don’t be fooled by Sajid Javid’s comments – the damage to press freedom has already been done

Some might see the recent conciliatory comments of Culture Secretary Sajid Javid as a sign of the pro-regulation forces pulling…

By Mick Hume

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…

By Dominic Ponsford

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