The Cairncross Report: what it says and first impressions
These decent proposals for helping public service journalism are worryingly vulnerable to manipulation by corporate press bosses and their ministerial friends
These decent proposals for helping public service journalism are worryingly vulnerable to manipulation by corporate press bosses and their ministerial friends
Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Met must act
Can Dame Frances Cairncross find a way of subsidising journalism without giving ministers the power to syphon money to their corrupt press chums – and without enabling Big Tech to buy itself freedom from scrutiny?
Calls for change from within the press are welcome but will make no lasting difference. The only workable remedy is effective, independent regulation that takes racism seriously
The reporter who got things spectacularly wrong over ‘Muslim foster care’ has offered another lesson in what journalists should not do
The tech giant’s £4.5m donation is good news, but boosting the firms that oversaw the devastation of the local press is a mistake
European law should trump the British Parliament, says the alleged money-man behind Brexit – at least when it comes to taxes on his UKIP donations
A likely Budget cut in VAT on online publications will be presented as a boost for journalism. In reality it is a bung for the pro-Tory billionaires behind the Mail, the Sun and the Telegraph
‘We order you to print this correction on page 2,’ said IPSO. ‘We’d rather not,’ replied the Mail on Sunday. ‘Oh dear,’ said IPSO, ‘in that case page 8 will do.’
Public subsidy for journalism can only be justified if that journalism is effectively regulated to keep standards high. My submission to the government review
This summary, issued by Tower Hamlets local authority on the instructions of the judge, has been accepted by every party in the case
The story caused a sensation but quickly fell under a cloud of doubt. Now the release of the final court judgment in the case leaves the newspaper’s reputation in shreds and surely puts senior journalists’ jobs on the line
I detest him as much as anyone does, but I’d rather we left his relationship with his wife out of it
Read the press and you’d think the sting had been vindicated. Cut through IPSO’s tangled prose, however, and you find the truth is otherwise
A public consultation on future funding of journalism closes on 14 September. It’s a government device to give taxpayers’ money to their press friends. Please let them know you object
The response of editors to the judgment shows them out of touch with the public and digging an ever-deeper hole of contempt for their journalism
She used up capital cancelling Leveson 2 for them, but it did not buy her favourable coverage. She is the corporate papers’ ever-willing victim: the more she appeases them, the harder they kick her
‘Even a cursory consideration shows it does not meet the requirements,’ says the Press Recognition Panel – after the Culture Secretary told us IPSO was just great
A week ago the corporate papers were screaming blue murder about threats of state control. Yet now the government has given itself a real power over them they are silent
In the end, none of the arguments mattered, because the Tories had already struck an outlandish and disgraceful deal with the DUP
Trusted local titles are being used by the corporate press to send out false distress signals even though they have nothing to fear from Leveson reforms
This is about trust, democracy, freedom, justice, constitutional propriety and the future of journalism
MPs have a chance to put Part 2 of the Leveson inquiry back on track next week, and the vote is too close to call
After promising million-pound fines, front-page corrections and tough investigations – none of which happened – the sham regulator says it will offer ‘compulsory’ arbitration. We’d be mad to trust it
Damned in an official report, exposed as useless by a select committee, incapable of tackling flagrant press dishonesty, caught cherry-picking complaints – the sham press regulator is blundering between disasters
The inquiry into the disaster has two parts, with the toughest questions due in part 2. But will part 2 ever happen? The example of Leveson 2 says no
The tame press ‘regulator’ faces a court challenge about the way it dismisses some complaints because they are made by the wrong people
The Daily Mail editor has been quoted saying something strikingly at odds with his own testimony to the Leveson Inquiry
Behind Culture Secretary Matt Hancock’s bold claims about making high-quality journalism sustainable is a sleazy scheme to give public money to the Mail, the Mirror and the Murdoch press
After endorsing the cancellation of an inquiry into its own corrupt and untrusted industry, the paper offers only obfuscations and distractions
The Mail’s obsessive campaign against Max Mosley is a hypocritical bid to distract attention from its own wrongdoings
Ministers have shamelessly put their own interests and those of their Murdoch and Mail cronies before those of the public
This may well be the most intellectually dishonest and also the sloppiest Guardian editorial in decades
Of 8,148 complaints about discrimination in the press in a year, the industry’s tame regulator upheld just one
The boss of regional newspaper group Johnston has written a letter to readers that is packed with distortions
Unless it has the true independence of a public inquiry, Theresa May’s initiative will just be a gravy train for Dacre and Murdoch
Her company may be offering ‘sincere apologies’ in court, but the newspaper boss still hasn’t explained why a police officer’s family was targeted
Two events in one day demonstrate the corrupt power of the press bosses – and their lack of accountability
The Prime Minister says press reforms backed by the Lords threaten local papers. But locals already have a special opt-out– thanks to measures she helped sponsor
Matt Hancock had to choose between the interests of a corrupt national press and those of the people he serves. One tweet gave his preference away
A decision on the second part of the inquiry into the press is imminent and the corporate papers are cranking up the disinformation. Here is an antidote
A law has already been passed giving every citizen the right to affordable justice in libel and privacy. Culture Secretary Karen Bradley just has to sign it
Amid all the giddy excitement about the Disney deal, Tamara Holder reminded us what matters most: this man’s companies wreck lives
A battery of data show trust at pitiful levels. Journalists need to wake up before it’s too late
Is trust in journalism really declining? Which journalists are trusted least? Does it matter? Making sense of what the surveys tell us
With a little redrafting, the sham regulator’s new ‘kitemark’ tells a more realistic story
A point-by-point commentary on the Foreign Secretary’s attempt to deter campaigners against newspaper hate speech
The Sun columnist has humiliated the puppet regulator and everyone associated with it
A tide of information suggests the report was inaccurate on essentials, omitted vital information and was poorly researched. The paper should come clean
Almost 25 years on from Stephen Lawrence’s murder, it’s time to ask whether the Mail really played the pivotal and progressive role it likes to claim
Their bread-and-butter activity used to be poking around in people’s personal lives. Now it is monstering Muslims, foreigners and anyone else they think of as different *
Back in 2013 she voted for the Leveson reforms. Now, as she struggles to justify ditching them, she relies on . . . let’s call them ‘errors’
How can press bosses justify these costly legal failures at a time when print sales are in freefall and they are closing local papers by the fistful?
And no, although the corporate press are desperate to avoid a public examination of who was to blame for the criminality in their ranks, Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry has not been scrapped
Either you support and profit from messages of hatred or you don’t. You can’t fudge this
A long analysis in the Observer blames everyone but the mainstream media themselves for low public trust – demonstrating the complacency and denial in the industry
. . . and why the public must complain if they think that’s not happening
A central feature of British life for more than two centuries, the printed morning newspaper will soon disappear for good. And it looks as though some of the biggest names will be the next to go.
British journalism could learn from its mistakes in covering the election, but will it?
For a year and more the Daily Mail’s editor towered over this country and a craven Tory party did his bidding. Now the electorate has stood up to him
British journalism is failing democracy and our journalists don’t seem to care
Worse still: May’s promise to ditch Leveson 2 and cheap arbitration would give the corporate national papers carte blanche to breach our rights in future
Two brilliant events that look to the future
There is near-silence about the future of the media in this election, yet the winners must take momentous decisions about broadcasting and the press
Famous targets get the headlines but three-quarters of those illegally hacked by newspapers were people you’ve never heard of
This election could hand big corporate newspapers more power than they’ve ever had. But they’ll do all they can to drown out debate on the subject
With ‘no-win-no-fee’ deals harder to get in libel cases, government must choose whether to back the corporate press or the ordinary citizen
if you thought today’s national press appeared unrestrained, just wait for tomorrow’s.