Former News International executive Rebekah Brooks leaves the Old Bailey after appearing on charges of conspiring to bribe public officials. It was revelations about journalistic practises at News that inspired inquiries in Australia and the UK.
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
There are at least two points of convergence in this week’s parliamentary deliberations on media freedom in Australia and the UK.
Both are driven by reports – Finkelstein and Leveson respectively – responding…
Lord justice Leveson was in Sydney last week to discuss his findings.
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
Britain’s newspaper editors met in a London hotel last week in a bid to fend off statutory regulation of their activities.
Warned by prime minister David Cameron on Tuesday that unless they accepted all…
The response to Leveson is less about media regulation and more about politics.
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The good Lord Leveson has certainly set the cat among both the press and political pigeons. His elegantly crafted proposal for establishing a self-regulatory regime for the press, backed by statutory under…
British Prime Minister, David Cameron leaves 10 Downing street to give a statement on Lord Justice Leveson’s report.
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
Few public inquiries have been so closely followed by the British press, or its findings awaited by them with such nervous anticipation as Lord Leveson’s into their culture, practices and ethics.
The…
Murdered school girl Millie Dowler’s parents arrive at the release of the Leveson Report.
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The Leveson Inquiry, set up by the UK coalition government in response to accusations of phone hacking at the now defunct Murdoch newspaper the News of the World, has reported – calling for press regulation…
Journalists must be open to change.
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By John Cokley, Swinburne University of Technology
Big day tomorrow. The Leveson Inquiry report in the United Kingdom is being released overnight, and no doubt media inquiry watchers like me will be up all night downloading and clicking through it.
But…
The ramifications of the UK phone hacking scandal, in which murder victims, journalists and politicians had their phones tapped, are still playing out.
Last year the scandal sank the UK tabloid, The News…
Andy Coulson, former News of the World editor and British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former Director of Communications, leaving the Leveson Inquiry.
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Andy Coulson, Former News of the World editor and British Prime Minister David Cameron’s previous Director of Communications, was arrested and charged with perjury last night in relation to evidence he…
James and Rupert Murdoch appearing before the Westminster parliamentary committee that has subsequently attacked their fitness as media proprietors.
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Will the damning, and somewhat surprising, verdict brought in on Rupert Murdoch by a committee of British parliamentarians, spell the end of the reign of the Wizard of Oz?
The answer depends on what is…
Rupert Murdoch arrives at the Leveson Inquiry in London last week.
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By Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology
Actor Hugh Grant said it as well as anyone in an interview with ABC News a while back. All that was needed to end the UK’s decades-long culture of tolerance for News International’s phone-hacking, its…
Seven West Media’s decision to withdraw from the Australian Press Council raises questions about the Australian commercial media’s commitment to corporate social responsibility and best practice.
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When the report of the Independent Inquiry into the media and media regulation, aka Finkelstein inquiry, was released some time ago, it was denounced as sinister and – like the Leveson Inquiry in the UK…
