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Remembering Pierre: ‘Being Around him was Like Standing in a Shaft of Sunlight’
Anita McNaught pays tribute to an exceptional TV news cameraman who was killed two years ago in the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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Sunak’s Private Meetings With Murdochs and Right-Wing Editors Were Purely ‘Social’ Says Government
Voters will never know what was discussed between the PM and media bosses
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Dan Wootton Finally Axed from GB News as Ofcom Rules Against Channel in Misogyny Row
The presenter was suspended from the channel in September after his exchange with Laurence Fox
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UK News Coverage of Conflict in Israel and Gaza Showed ‘Overwhelming’ Bias, Report Finds
The Centre for Media Monitoring found that, in the month after the 7 October attacks, pro-Israeli sources were quoted more often and challenged less frequently than Palestinians
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Green Party is Battling for Fair Coverage as Media Relies on “Shock Factor” of Reform UK, Leaders Say
As Reform UK dominates the media spotlight amid rumoured Conservative defections, the Green Party’s co-leaders call out the UK media for its disproportionate coverage of hard-right figures
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‘The “Dangerous Muslim” Trope is Being Weaponised to Avoid Scrutiny’
Faisal Hanif argues that increasingly desperate politicians are stoking Islamophobia for their own ends
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Two Police Forces to Take No Further Action Against Dan Wootton – As GB News Presenter Reveals Police Scotland as well as The Met Were Investigating
Byline Times has not previously reported on any investigation into the journalist by Police Scotland
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Closure for Carrie: How Caroline Flack’s Mum is Still Fighting for Truth Four Years After Her Death
On the anniversary of Caroline Flack’s death, Byline Times launches a new #MediaToo investigation into her treatment by the police and the media with an interview with her mother Christine
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Conservative Promos Banned by Local Newspaper After Party ‘Wrongly Suggests Paper Endorsed’ Candidate
“A political line has been crossed – and we are angry”, the paper’s editor wrote.
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These Elections Will be Fought Dirty and in the Shadows. VoteWatch Will Help Shine a Light
We need your help to follow the money, call out corrupt campaigning, and monitor voter suppression wherever it occurs
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Prince Harry Demands Piers Morgan Police Probe as ‘Shockingly Dishonest’ Mirror Pays Out Again Over Hacking
Substantial evidence of criminal behaviour and cover-up at Mirror Group Newspapers emerged last summer at trial
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Brianna Ghey: ‘When the World Finally Saw the Person Her Family Always Loved’
Katherine O’Donnell delivers a powerful rebuke to the media and politicians for the ‘irrational, obsessional’ hatred and misrepresentation that Brianna Ghey and her family faced every day
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Morgan On Marcus Rashford: Did Someone Say ‘Hypocrisy’?
A recent column by the former Editor of the Daily Mirror on the superstar footballer revealed more about himself than the 26-year-old England player, writes Mic Wright
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Labour Backs Leveson-Style Press Reforms in Commons Vote
The party’s decision signals continuing, if low-key, commitment to press reform, writes Brian Cathcart
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Keir Starmer and the Labour Party – Press and Pundits Running Out of Dirty Tricks
Veteran media observer Tim Fenton watches as the right wing press paints itself into a pre-election corner
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Time for Truth: Calls Grow for Police Probe into Piers Morgan and Mirror Editors
A prominent lawyer, hacking victim and an ex-police officer are joining Prince Harry in demanding police action into Mirror Group crimes and alleged lies to the Leveson Inquiry
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The BBC vs The Post Office: The Undeclared Conflict of Interest as Panorama Investigated the Horizon Scandal
John Sweeney, who worked on the 2015 BBC documentary, explores how the Post Office’s chair was also on the broadcaster’s board while the programme was in production – without declaring it
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‘Media Bill Votes Will Show Us the Real Keir Starmer’
How far will Labour go to appease the billionaire press ahead of the general election? We are about to find out, writes Brian Cathcart
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‘To Restore Trust, Rip Up the Astroturf’
As fake grassroots organisations continue their culture war – we need to fight back, writes Otto English
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Culture Secretary Hits Out at Supposed BBC Bias – But Claims Ofcom-Hit GB News is ‘Balanced’
The comments come despite GB News being subject to a swathe of Ofcom complaints about its broadcasts and Conservative MPs interviewing other Conservative MPs on the channel
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Rumbled: Dan Wootton ‘Comeback Planned’ on ‘Free Speech’ Platform Used by Russell Brand
Wootton has been suspended from his presenting role on GB News since September after an on-air misogyny storm. Now he is said to be preparing to launch a channel on a controversial video platform
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TalkTV Boss Told Staff to ‘Make a Fuss’ About Channel Migrant Deaths and ‘Get Angry’
A News UK insider described the apparent attempts by the struggling channel to rile up viewers as ‘irresponsible’
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Exposed: How Paparazzi Spied on Phillip Schofield’s Sick Mother
While Philip Schofield’s 87-year-old mother was receiving medical attention, both she and her son were secretly filmed by the UK’s ‘Number One Papparazzi’ – as media interest in the troubled presenter continues
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‘Starmer’s Refusal to Confront the Press Isn’t Just a Mistake – It’s Irresponsible’
If the Labour Leader does not embrace media reform now, he never will – and the entire country will be far worse off as a result, writes Brian Cathcart
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Rishi Sunak Meets Murdochs More than NHS Figures in Latest Lobbying Revelations
Sunak had eight meetings with senior media executives over the Summer – compared to just one meeting with health professionals.
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Plurality and the Press: The Telegraph Takeover
The role of broadcasting and communications regulator Ofcom in scrutinising the proposed newspaper deal has not received the scrutiny it deserves, writes Julian Petley
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Piers Morgan’s Statement on the Prince Harry Phone Hacking Case – Annotated
Dr Evan Harris, former Director of Hacked Off and now a legal analyst to the successful claimants against Mirror Group Newspapers over phone hacking and other unlawful information gathering, deconstructs former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan’s statement on the damning judgement against the firm last week.
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Piers Morgan: ‘A Pretty Despicable Human Being’
Following the landmark judgment against the Mirror Group in the High Court, Byline Times is reprinting Paddy French’s June 2015 Press Gang article about Piers Morgan and unlawful information gathering
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Getting Away with Murder? What Harry’s Win Against the Mirror Means for Murdoch and the Mail
The judgment of Justice Fancourt establishes a clear link between the ‘criminal media nexus’ of corrupt cops, journalists and the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Daniel Morgan to feature in trials next year
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Witnesses Interviewed as Police and Murdoch Probes Into Dan Wootton Continue
Scotland Yard and News UK are continuing to investigate serious allegations about the conduct of Dan Wootton following this newspaper’s special investigation into the journalist and presenter
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Ministers Accused of Waging ‘Culture War’ on BBC Amid Licence Review and More Cuts
The BBC will have to make £90m of cuts on top of its current £400m annual funding gap – while its entire funding model could be ripped up.
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Revealed: The Emails Behind the Royal ‘Cash-For-Leaks’ Affair
Detailed but anonymous testimony from insiders at The Sun sat at the heart of cash-for-leaks allegations involving a royal official and the newspaper’s former top editor Dan Wootton. Now, Byline Times can publish the details for the first time
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In Plain Sight: The Picture the Palace Probe Missed
In 2020, Simon Case was tasked to investigate payments from Dan Wootton and The Sun to the partner of a royal press officer, allegedly for information about Prince Harry and Meghan. He found there was no evidence of wrongdoing. But Byline Times can shed further light
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The Truth About Megxit: How Dan Wootton and a ‘Cash-For-Leaks’ Scandal Split the Royal Family
As Scotland Yard probes the journalist Dan Wootton over allegations of blackmail and serial sexual catfishing after a three-year special investigation by Byline Times, this newspaper can now reveal how his payments to the partner of a top royal aide forced the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to run from the UK
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‘Reckless to the Point of Madness’: How the Murdoch Empire Hacked British Politics
Journalist Nick Davies talks to Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber in Prospect magazine’s ‘Media Confidential’ podcast about the new revelations from the settlement by News Group Newspapers
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‘News Corp Was Out to Get Me’: Chris Huhne Condemns Murdoch Empire after Settlement for Phone-Hacking and Intrusion
The media company has now paid to settle a claim that alleges the involvement in, or at least the knowledge of, illegal activities by senior executives
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‘The BBC’s Claim About COP28 Secret Oil Deals Is Deeply Flawed’
The job of journalism is not to reinforce a pre-existing bias, writes Nafeez Ahmed
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‘The BBC’s Evisceration of Newsnight is a Craven Admission of Defeat’
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores why the cuts announced to the corporation’s flagship news programme are another damning, but unsurprising, blow to its reputation
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New Charity Launched to Tackle Abuse by the Press as Government Starts to Repeal Leveson Inquiry Law
Campaigners say press standards have barely improved with newspapers still allowed to mark their own homework
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‘I’m A Non-Entity Get Me Out Of Here’
Otto English has been watching Nigel Farage in the jungle so you don’t have to.
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Extinction Rebellion-linked Group’s Legal Battle Against Telegraph Over Climate Crisis ‘Denial’
EXCLUSIVE: A climate group is planning legal action against the under-sale Telegraph Media Group over the outlet’s climate coverage.
