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MURDOCH KOMPROMAT: Cheryl Tweedy Joins New Queue of Stars Suing The Sun Over Hacking
Cheryl Tweedy has joined the latest wave of people to sue Rupert Murdoch’s UK tabloids for phone hacking.
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Australia’s Right-Wing Government is Playing a Risky Game in Ignoring the Threat Posed by Right-Wing Terrorism
CJ Werleman examines how Australia’s mainstream news media is feeding white nationalist extremist views into normal political discourse and how those in power are reluctant to do anything about such terrorism.
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Big Boris and Brexit Doublespeak Surround Us – Where Does the Truth Lie?
Otto English considers how we have entered into an Orwellian world in which Brexit governs all and its supporters attempt to convince us daily that night is day and day is night.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Standing Up to the British Media Protects Us All from Press Abuse
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Ben Stokes and Gareth Thomas are fighting for us all when they speak out against the appalling behaviour of our tabloid media.
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David Cameron was in Bed with the Press – Why is he Airbrushing Out his History as a Media Puppet?
Brian Cathcart reviews former prime minister David Cameron’s autobiography and the crucial omissions about phone hacking and the Leveson Inquiry.
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It’s Time to Ban Climate Change Denialism in the Media
CJ Werleman on why The Conversation’s decision to ban climate change sceptics from its site is a move which must be followed by other media outlets.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: ‘Maltese Authorities Still Won’t Tell Us Who Wanted her Silenced’
Updates on the lasting legacy of the murdered Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Uncivil War – A Social Media Conflict Without An End
Otto English laments how the culture war that began with the EU Referendum has now polarised and enveloped every aspect of our national debate online.
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‘Democracy Dies when Fact and Information is Denied’
Stephen Colegrave speaks to crossbench peer Lord Victor Adebowale about how our democracy is teetering dangerously on the edge of a cliff.
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Brexit from Abroad: The Language of a Country Falling Apart
Chris Keulemans has spent the past three years at our sister organisation, Byline Festival, listening to a great national debate – going nowhere as truth crumbles.
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BBC Finally Insists Opaquely Funded Think Tanks Declare their Interests
After Carole Cadwalladr challenged Director General Tony Hall over dark money lobbyists, the BBC have responded with new guide lines.
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Transgender Discrimination Case Against The Times Thrown Out
An employment tribunal found that the newspaper did not unfairly dismiss or victimise Katherine O’Donnell as a transgender employee.
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George Clooney Scrapped Phone Hacking Movie over Hollywood’s Fear of Upsetting Rupert Murdoch
Plans for Hack Attack, based on journalist Nick Davies book on the phone hacking scandal, never got off the ground due to the tycoon’s great “passive power”.
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Lies, Damned Lies and the Daily Telegraph
Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at Westminster University, on why broadcasters, academics and members of the public should be careful to trust newspaper coverage of polls and call out bogus claims about public opinion.
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The Truth About Trump: Neutrality Gets Us Nowhere
Jonathan Lis argues that the inability to call out Donald Trump’s white supremacism is not impartiality and caution – it’s a dereliction of duty.
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A Duty to Inform or Channel for Disinformation? BBC Defends Bannon’s ‘Build the Wall’ Interview
The public service broadcaster still refuses to explain how it agreed to stage Jon Sopel’s interview at the under investigation ‘WeBuildtheWall’ fundraising event near El Paso.
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Who Killed David Holden? How the Murder of a Sunday Times Reporter has Lessons for Journalists Today
With journalists increasingly assassination targets, Peter Gillman, a former staff member on the Sunday Times’ Insight team, looks at the murder of his colleague in Egypt in 1977.
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GEORGE OSBORNE: ‘I Am Not an Expert in Producing a Newspaper’
As an ex-journalist becomes PM, James Hanning’s interview with ex-MP-turned-editor George Osborne explores the London Evening Standard’s commercial dealings, independence and his ‘spiky’ approach to the newspaper.
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Weaponising News: With a Disgraced Journalist in Number 10, the Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Battlespace
Peter Jukes looks back over three years of information warfare around the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum and asks: how do we distinguish real journalism from disinformation?
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Australia’s Journalism Crisis is Threatening its Democracy
With Rupert Murdoch’s chosen government waging a war on journalists in Australia, democratic values in his country of birth are in peril, writes CJ Werleman.
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Darkness Descends: Government Suppressing People’s Right to Know
Iain Overton explains how the Freedom of Information Act used to be a useful tool for journalists to hold power to account. No longer.
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Three Men to Stand Trial for Murder of Malta’s Most Prominent Journalist
Nicola Driscoll-Davies on new developments in the investigation of the murder of Malta’s most prominent journalist.
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The Times uses ‘Freedom of Expression’ as its Defence in Transgender Case
At an employment tribunal in Edinburgh, the Murdoch owned broadsheet was accused of inaccurate, misleading and prejudicial reporting of trans issues.
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Did The Times Editor Conceal the Truth about the Muslim Foster Carer Story?
Liz Gerard provides more evidence on the claim that Times editor John Witherow insisted on the controversial ‘Muslim foster carer story’ because it had been handed to the editor by an oligarch friend.
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The Times, Andrew Norfolk and the ‘Muslim Foster Care’ Story: An Ugly Picture
Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism at Kingston University, on his new report examining how a reporter at The Times newspaper published three front-page stories which were fundamentally wrong and damaging to perceptions of Muslims.
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The Transatlantic Triumph of Trumpism: Boris Johnson – A Plan Years in the Making
Though most people assume Steve Bannon-style populism arrived with Brexit in 2016, the planning, the people, and the project first came together three years earlier.
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I Knew I was Being Lied to by Newspaper Editors Over Phone Hacking, says Sir Brian Leveson
The judge who led the Public Inquiry into Press ethics has revealed he ‘knew’ some national newspaper editors were lying to him under oath about phone hacking, Byline Times can report today.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: “It is an Assassination” – Special Rapporteur Hits Back at Maltese Government’s Claims about Murdered Journalist
A new report by Pieter Omtzigt urges the Maltese Government to set up an independent public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s death immediately.
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Journalists Under Threat: Defending Free Speech Needs Actions, Not Words
Why the work of a small group in London, Prisoners of Conscience, is sadly becoming more relevant than ever for persecuted journalists across the world.
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‘Scurrilous’ Evidence from Former News of the World Journalist in Pointless Court Case
High Court Judge describes court action as “futile” and characterises part of former tabloid journalist’s evidence as “irrelevant” and “scurrilous”.
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Times Editor’s Oligarch Friend Behind Controversial ‘Muslim Foster Parents’ Front Page, Tribunal Hears
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.
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Why the Breakdown of the BBC is a Microcosm of British Politics
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.
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Christchurch Summit: Mainstream News Sites also ‘Perpetuating Hate’ and Violent Extremism
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?
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Europe Votes to Protect Whistle-blowers – but will the UK Play Ball Beyond Brexit?
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.
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The BBC ‘Facilitates Fascism’ says Corporation’s Former Reporter
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.
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UPDATED: Julian Assange appears in Court – what happens next?
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.
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Lethal Victimhood: How the Far Right’s Tactic of ‘Reverse Terror’ is Spreading into Mainstream Media
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
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Dando Blagger Riddle: Police Failed to Get the Full Story out of The Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror should have come clean about blagging and hacking to murder cops – and saved police time and money, says John Ford.
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Blagged to Death? How Scotland Yard Missed Crucial Clues in the Tabloid Targeting of Jill Dando
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.
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Democracy in Danger: What Happened to our Data after the EU Referendum?
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.
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Correction of the Week – 25th February
While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent – and ours.
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Phone Hacking: Time the Police Stepped In
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
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The BBC on the Edge of the Abyss 2: THE ARGUMENT
The BBC has failed the license fee-payer in its core duty to inform when it comes to three of the biggest stories of recent years. Peter Jukes explores why should this concern each and every one of us.
