Heroes of the year: Plebgate whistleblowers, Russia Today defectors and BJA winners make Press Gazette’s top ten
Yesterday, Press Gazette named our top ten villains of the year. But after a year that has seen Press Gazette,…
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NUJ encourages members to send letter telling Home Office: Draft RIPA code of practice not enough
The National Union of Journalists is encouraging its 17,000-plus members, and others, to tell the Home Office that its draft…
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We have until 20 January to Save Our Sources and stop the police licence to view journalists’ phone records
Comment When Press Gazette first highlighted the fact the Met Police accessed the phone records of The Sun in order…
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Nick Clegg tells Home Office: ‘Police should have to seek a sign off from the judge before they go after journalists’
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told Theresa May police must be forced to seek judicial approval before grabbing journalists’…
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A new draft Code of Practice on government spying powers has finally been published and states that police should continue…
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Met chief says police spied on Sun to find Plebgate sources because journalists were ‘involved in committing a crime’
Met chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has claimed that his force used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to spy on…
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The Home Affairs Select Committee has told police forces to stop secretly monitoring the phone records of journalists. The Commons…
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The Leveson effect: Sharp increase in police media leak investigations, relations with journalists at ‘all-time low’
HMIC figures show 98 press leak investigations in nine months during the Leveson Inquiry Compares to 302 in five years…
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