Report: Newsrooms must improve source protection in face of government attacks
A Guardian-backed study on protecting sources and whistleblowers in the digital age has urged news organisations to strengthen their policies…
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Snowden helping develop tools to protect journalists and whistleblowers – ‘to make the game a little more fair’
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is working to develop tools for journalists that he says will help protect them and their sources…
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Sir Alan Moses: Unravelling Leveson legislation could take 15 years and diverts from real issues about print’s future
Chairman of press regulator IPSO Sir Alan Moses has said unpicking legislation brought in after part one of the Leveson…
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NUJ claims press freedom victory as minister signals protections for journalists and whistleblowers in Digital Economy Bill
The National Union of Journalists has claimed a “great victory” for press freedom over changes being made to the Digital…
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Court rules that Cleveland Police acted unlawfully by using telecoms spying powers to find newspaper sources
Surveillance court judges have today ruled that a police force’s use of spying powers on two former officers in a…
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Cleveland Police chief apologises to Northern Echo journalists for ‘unlawful’ phone records grab as force set for overhaul
The chief constable of a scandal-hit police force has apologised to two Northern Echo journalists after officers unlawfully snooped on…
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Cleveland Police abused spying powers to grab call records of Mirror journalist in hunt for media sources
Daily Mirror journalist Jeremy Armstrong has been confirmed as the latest journalist targeted by police using spying powers to track…
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A panel of judges are set to rule that Cleveland Police acted unlawfully by grabbing the phone records of two…
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