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Somebody I know who became a college principal described recently how much he hated the press after having to manage the fallout from the deaths of his students in a road traffic accident. Reporters were described as “vultures” who were “shouting down the phone to get details before the families were ready” and “publishing pictures…
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The Chartered Institute of Journalists has welcomed the Government stated intention to scrap Leveson Inquiry Part 2 and Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act, which threatened to punish news publishers refusing to sign up to a state-approved regulator. New CIoJ Vice President, Professor Tim Crook, says that Ministers should now scrap the Press…
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Award-winning broadcast journalist and author Kate Adie OBE, a longstanding member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists (and a Fellow of our Institute since 1990), has been honoured with a Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The BAFTA Fellowship is the highest accolade bestowed by the Academy on an individual in…
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The Government has quite rightly ruled out “Leveson 2” but, as the latest World Press Freedom Index reveals, freedom of the press here in the United Kingdom is not as secure as we might expect. According to the index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), despite being, historically, a cradle of freedom and democracy in…
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A continued heavy-handed approach towards the press – often in the name of national security – together with a general climate of hostility towards the media, has resulted in the UK keeping its status as one of the worst-ranked Western European countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2018 World Press Freedom Index. In RSF’s…
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The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) is creating a compulsory arbitration scheme as an alternative to court action for people with “genuine claims” against newspapers. It already has a voluntary scheme but there have been no cases brought under this system since it was introduced two years. The scheme is scheduled to go live on…
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Newspaper group Trinity Mirror is changing its name to Reach. Shareholders have also approved the group’s takeover of Express newspapers (from Northern Shell) by an overwhelming 99 per cent. Not all the news from Trinity Mirror is positive; its current annual report shows that its female staff were paid 18 per cent less than their…
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The 2018 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), reflects growing animosity towards journalists. Hostility towards the media, openly encouraged by political leaders, and the efforts of authoritarian regimes to export their vision of journalism pose a threat to democracies. The climate of hatred is steadily more visible in the Index, which…
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Published every year since 2002 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the World Press Freedom Index is an important advocacy tool based on the principle of emulation between states. Because it is well known, its influence over governments is growing. Many heads of state and government fear its annual publication. The Index is a point of…
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Although local police in the Urals Region decided there was “nothing suspicious” about the death of journalist Maksim Borodin, others remain to be convinced. The investigative reporter, who recently wrote an expose of the Russian government’s use of mercenaries in Syria and elsewhere – Putin’s “shadow army” – fell to his death in a five-story…
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