Gary Gibbon
Press charter wobble and pause
New rules on making sure newspapers keep to certain standards should be a done deal stamped by the Privy Council, but the big players are staying away.
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Gary Gibbon
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Ian Hislop: ‘ We don’t need a state-regulated press’
Private Eye editor Ian Hislop tells Channel 4 News that a state- regulated press would be a slippery slope to politicians saying what is printed in a newspaper.
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Newspapers’ plans for press regulation rejected
Culture Secretary Maria Miller tells the Commons that the newspaper industry’s proposals for self-regulation have been rejected – and that the government will now press ahead with its own charter.
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Kate McCann’s £1m libel case against ex-police chief begins
Kate McCann attends a Portuguese court for the start of the family’s £1m libel case against a former local police chief – six years after her daughter Madeleine went missing.
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Gary Gibbon
Whatever happened to Leveson?
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?
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Murdoch tape: MP calls for police investigation
An MP says that a tape revealing what Rupert Murdoch really made of the scandal that engulfed his empire should be in the hands of the police.
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Revealed: the Rupert Murdoch tape
“Incompetent” police, regrets over his own investigation, promises to protect Sun journalists: a secret recording reveals Rupert Murdoch’s real attitudes to the scandal that has engulfed his empire.
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Dominic Mohan replaced as Sun editor
The editor of Britain’s biggest-selling tabloid leaves the paper for a senior advisory role on the day that two Sun journalists are charged under Operation Elveden.
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Gary Gibbon
Leveson: much more wrangling ahead
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.
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Publishers reject post-Leveson regulation plan
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.
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Press regulation: the end of a free press?
Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, tells Channel 4 News the deal struck between the three main parties means the end of a free press. Conservative MP George Eustice disagrees.
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Gary Gibbon
On press controls, Clegg and Miliband moved – but Cameron blinked
David Cameron’s team say they won concessions from Labour and the Liberal Democrats in negotiations over press regulation. But history may judge that it was Mr Cameron whose bluff was called.
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Leveson – will it actually work? – video
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.
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All sides claim victory after press regulation deal
David Cameron welcomes agreement on press regulation, saying it is not a “press law”. But Labour and Liberal Democrats say the deal involves a royal charter backed by law. So what was agreed?
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Leveson: the battle to preserve press freedom
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.
