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Whither media studies? 22 Aug 2013 | 04:32 pm
Guest blog by Tom Rowland Last week’s announcement of the ‘A’ level results provided an opportunity for sections of the press to indulge a pet obsession of bashing media studies as an academic disc.....
Why are we still waiting? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
Guest blog by Joan Smith I gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in November 2011. The report was published a year later, in November 2012. Nine months later, in August 2013, we are still waiting f...
British journalism’s great ethical divide: should reporters pay for information? 13 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
By Nicholas Jones When the News of the World phone hacking trial opens at the Old Bailey in early September, it will highlight one of the great taboos of British journalism. How much freedom – if any...
Waiting in the niteries of St James with a smoother sort of courtier 13 Aug 2013 | 02:21 pm
Guest blog by Tom Rowland It is an evening in late November 2011 and I am to be found glass of champagne in one hand, a catalogue in the other, in the amiable surroundings of The Chris Beetles Galler...
Newspaper readers – vote with your feet 12 Aug 2013 | 02:41 pm
Guest blog: Jane Winter, human rights campaigner, whose confidential emails were hacked at the behest of journalists, believes that readers could have a much greater role to play. Ever since I becam...
Next week: The Victims’ View 9 Aug 2013 | 01:55 pm
A fresh perspective next week on the Hacked Off blog: We’ll hear directly from victims of press intrusion and get their personal views on the long wait for action in the campaign for reform of press s...
Guardian’s decision to reject non-Leveson scheme welcome, press proprietors must think again 7 Aug 2013 | 01:15 pm
Responding to the announcement by The Guardian that it has rejected the IPSO scheme proposed by the Press Standards Board of Finance (PressBoF), Professor Brian Cathcart, Executive Director of Hacked ...
The two faces of the press on regulation of private investigators 5 Aug 2013 | 02:53 pm
The press defended PIs from regulation, then turned around and asked why they hadn’t been regulated. “The revelation that firms from two of this country’s biggest industries may have commissioned cor...
The Daily Mail and weasel words 2 Aug 2013 | 03:06 pm
by Brian Cathcart The Daily Mail, in a rage about solicitors allegedly employing rogue private investigators, has denounced a ‘wall of silence‘ among big law firms while at the same time accusing the...
Statement responding to release of information about companies who used private investigators 31 Jul 2013 | 08:14 pm
Commenting on the release by the Home Affairs Select Committee of a breakdown of companies and individuals who used private investigators who had broken the law, a Hacked Off spokesman said: “Hacked ...
