Pinteresque Leveson appearance
Add them up, and the pauses from Sir Brian Leveson at his culture select committee hearing may have taken up longer than the answers.
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Campaigners have reacted with anger to the announcement that the second part of the Leveson Inquiry into relations between the press and the police will not now go ahead. Rejecting accusations that the decision was a betrayal of the victims of press abuse, the Culture Secretary Matt Hancock said another costly inquiry was “not the…
If Culture Secretary Maria Miller hoped her apology on Thursday over her expenses claims would be the end of the affair, it has not quite turned out that way.
Add them up, and the pauses from Sir Brian Leveson at his culture select committee hearing may have taken up longer than the answers.
As Home Secretary Theresa May launches a crackdown on unlicensed private investigators, what has become of the original phone hacking saga and the Leveson report proposals?
All parties involved in the press regulation debate want the same broad approach: a royal charter. They just can’t agree what should be in it – and there is a lot of ground to be narrowed between them.
A newspaper industry body rejects the government’s plans for press regulation and publishes its own proposal for self-regulation bound by a royal charter.
A deal that seems to have kept everyone happy – but will anything change? Business Correspondent Sarah Smith explains what difference the new regulator will make to victims of press mistreatment.
With David Cameron’s proposals set against rival plans by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, the prime minister has 48 hours to sell his vision of press regulation.
In a hastily-arranged press conference at Downing Street, David Cameron announces cross-party talks on press reforms have “concluded without agreement”.
Party leaders spend 45 minutes thrashing out a deal on the Leveson proposal and after “good talks” agree to reconvene on Monday. But what is the hold up and how close are we to a consensus?
David Cameron has presented draft proposals for press regulation that reject Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendation of statutory backing.
A special adviser triggers fresh post-Leveson media fears after issuing an apparent warning to The Telegraph, underlining the culture secretary’s influence and connections.
The findings of the Leveson inquiry, which calls for an independent regulator underpinned by statute, have polarised opinion – but who thinks what?
Is the Leveson inquiry revenge? Are censorship fears “nonsense”? And what about the internet? Krishnan Guru-Murthy and a panel of experts debate the future of the media in an online Google+ Hangout.
Only 12 pages in the 2,000-page Leveson report deal with the internet, triggering criticism that his recommendations are outdated. But is the 63-year-old actually a trail-blazer?