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After Leveson: newspapers need not fear statutory underpinning
Today's final extract from the book After Leveson* is by Professor Chris Frost, head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores university. A former president of the National Union of Journalists, he gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry alongside the NUJ's general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet.
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After Leveson: why 'innocent' regionals oppose new press regulation
Today's extract from the book After Leveson* is by Tor Clark, head of journalism at Leicester's De Montfort university and a former local newspaper editor. Events have overtaken his chapter, which is entitled "Four reasons to be cheerful for the regionals!".
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Blogging off for a sun-kissed vacation
This blog is taking a holiday - sun-kissed Los Angeles here I come - so there will be few, if any, contributions until mid-April. However, the serialisation of the book After Leveson will continue at intervals. By the time I return, I am sure publishers and editors will have agreed to the "dab of statute" and will have set up a wonderful new regulator.
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BBC suspends Sri Lankan broadcasts
The BBC's World Service has suspended all its broadcasts on the Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) because of what its calls "continued interruption and interference" to the corporation's Tamil programming.
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After Leveson: how the judge tried to tackle the 'murky' business of privacy
Today's extract from the book After Leveson* is by the journalist, and journalism lecturer, Natalie Peck. She considers Lord Justice Leveson's deliberations on privacy.
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New Zealand may create one-stop shop for media regulation
New Zealand may set up a regulator to deal with every aspect of media - broadcasting, print and online news.
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PCC rejects complaints about Burchill's transgender column
The Press Complaints Commission, having considered objections about an Observer column by Julie Burchill that caused outrage among transgender people, has decided there was no breach of the editors' code of practice.
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What's the link between Nigel Farage, Lord Beaverbrook and Aristotle?
I wrote a piece last week about the way in which The Sun is bringing Ukip in from the cold, gradually giving it greater legitimacy.
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New delay to Murdoch's Los Angeles Times ambitions
Rupert Murdoch's supposed ambition to acquire the Los Angeles Times (why, you may well ask) has run into a buffer.
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Washington Post accused of censorship
The Washington Post has been accused by a journalist of spiking a piece he was commissioned to write about the US media's failures in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
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