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The Conservative MP who chaired Westminster’s hacking inquiry has said that jailing journalists in the UK could send the wrong message abroad.
Local newspaper groups have said the Government’s proposed Royal Charter on press regulation could threaten the financial future of many papers.
The Evening Standard reports today that an un-named senior police officer may have sold information about senior goings-on at the Met Police to the News of the World in 2006.
Criminal suspects who have been arrested should not normally be named until they are charged, the Home Secretary has said.
The chairman of the Police Federation has warned that police are reluctant to talk to journalists because of the “fear factor” in the wake of the Leveson report.
The Government has been urged by a former cabinet minister to stand firm behind the Parliament-backed draft Royal Charter on press regulation.
The latest change to the Royal Charter proposed by the newspaper industry could see one of the three national papers not to have signed up to the rival plan fall into line.
British national newspapers published four times as many negative articles about the Leveson Inquiry as they did positive ones, according to a report out today.
The latest high-profile individuals identified in the media after being arrested on suspicon of sexual assaults were not named by police, Press Gazette has learned.
A majority of members of the public do not have confidence in the rival press regulation Royal Charter put forward by the newspaper industry, according to an opinion poll.
A Government decision on a press regulation Royal Charter may have been delayed to avoid the threat of judicial review.
The Government has delayed making a decision on the press regulation Royal Charter pending further consultation.
A press regulation Royal Charter was agreed in a cross-party deal in March and sought to establish an independent press regulator underpinned by statute.
As World Press Freedom Day is marked today - global journalism organisations have given their backing to the independent Royal Charter on press regulation put forward by the UK newspaper industry.
The newspaper and magazine industry’s Royal Charter on press regulation has been tweaked to include the provision of a whistleblowers’ hotline.
The Chartered Institute of Journalists has lodged a legal challenge with the Privy Council over the proposed Royal Charter for the regulation of the press.
Various peace deals have collapsed over the years because of a refusal to compromise and I fear the ongoing tussle over press regulation could go the same way.
UK regional press trade body the Newspaper Society has warned Culture Secretary Maria Miller, the Privy Council and The Queen that the Government’s proposed press regulation plan could be unconstitutional.
Regional editors have voiced their support for a revised Royal Charter for the regulation of the press put forward by their trade body the Newspaper Society last week.
The national newspaper titles behind a rival Royal Charter for the regulation of the press today launched direct appeals to readers via full-page adverts and editorials.
Campaign group Hacked Off has condemned the rival press regulation Royal Charter published today as a “desperate move” which defies the will of Parliament.
