Media

High Court Judge describes court action as "futile" and characterises part of former tabloid journalist's evidence as "irrelevant" and "scurrilous".

Times editor John Witherow insisted that an award-winning journalist write a story about a “white Christian” girl’s placement with Muslim foster parents, in spite of his “significant misgivings”, because it had been handed to the editor by an oligarch friend, an employment tribunal has been told.

Peter Jukes argues that the public broadcaster is easily gamed by bad actors and vested interests who can break the rules with impunity - just like so many other key British institutions.

G7 leaders will gather to discuss calls for a 'Christchurch Call' to combat terrorism and violent extremism on social media – but what about the news sites of the traditional press?

MEPs have backed "Daphne's Law" amid concerns over the treatment of citizens and journalists who expose corruption and malpractice in the public interest. But key exemptions remain in place.

Patrick Howse spent decades reporting news for the BBC, risking life and limb. He believed in Auntie's credo. But the former producer says the corporation's unquestioning Brexit coverage has now crossed the line.

Following confirmation that Julian Assange has been arrested - twice - today, Byline Times provides the background to his legal battles and asks which allegations will be prioritised.

After the targeting of a Byline Times writer to the death threats against the author of a parliamentary petition, it looks like right-wing publications are pandering to the incitement tactics of the extreme Far Right - fake claims of violence

The Daily Mirror should have come clean about blagging and hacking to murder cops – and saved police time and money, says John Ford.

The Metropolitan Police suspected a Daily Mirror journalist of illegally 'blagging' the TV presenter three months before her murder, but didn't see the phone hacking connection.

In the light of multiple investigations into Brexit online campaigns, Byline Times asks whether our election data is secure or could be misused in future votes.

While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent - and ours.

Evidence against executives and editors is piling up in the civil courts, but newspapers are just buying their way out of trouble. The right place for this is the criminal courts, which means the Met must act

In 2018, the BBC dropped the ball in covering three of the biggest news stories of the year, inextricably linked with the future of this country: the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the stealing of millions of people’s data and then its manipulation during the Brexit referendum; campaign group Vote Leave’s over-spending in the run-up to the vote; and the questionable finances of Arron Banks, the donor who bankrolled the unofficial campaign to leave the EU, Leave.EU.

THE MAIL on Sunday is today embroiled in a growing phone hacking crisis after explosive emails obtained by Byline Investigates show one of the paper’s top editors receiving transcripts of actor Sadie Frost’s voicemails.

The BBC is still following the bankrupt precept it must reflect all shades of public opinion regardless of merit, accuracy or origin  

While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent - and ours.