For decades people – many of them bereaved, or victims of crime – have been abused and had their privacy invaded at the hands of national newspapers. Those responsible have never been brought to ...
A new Hacked Off report examines IPSO rulings over a one-year period in 2020 and exposes how, after seven years, IPSO has failed to establish itself as an effective regulator.
For 16 years my husband Dean served with distinction in the Army, the last five in the elite Special Boat Service. He did tours in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa. Then one evening in 2010, ...
Hacked Off can today reveal, after an analysis of Government transparency data, that employees of Murdoch’s newspapers met with Government Ministers or their advisors a staggering 206 times in the ...
Specialist online forums and message-boards are fertile breeding grounds for extremists, where hateful content is shared and reinforced without challenge. Material posted in these forums originates ...
It has been four years since the sham “regulator” IPSO was set up and they are still failing victims of press abuse. Read our latest publication “Thrown to the Wolves” on how the public still suffers ...
Even the industry-controlled Editors’ Code is clear that coverage after a death should be “handled sensitively”. Yet the Daily Mail has today published photographs of Kobe Bryant’s friend LeBron James ...
Rarely is your whole life experience captured in a moment. Such a moment arrived for me on 28 February 2012 as I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Courts of Justice to give evidence to the ...
In late June, a 66-page report by Professor Brian Cathcart and Paddy French of Press Gang, “Unmasked”, was published. The report examined a series of investigative stories run by the paper which had ...
Liz Truss’ election as the UK’s next Prime Minister marks a significant turnaround after she almost missed out on the run-off altogether, having been behind both Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt for ...
PART ONE: The Commons Agrees – for now. Members of Parliament speak with one voice rarely. One of those occasions was in 2011 when the House of Commons Chamber listened intently to the Prime Minister, ...
The Sun has come under fire from England batsman Ben Stokes for a front page story Stokes has called “utterly disgusting” and “lowest form of journalism”. A Hacked Off spokesperson responding to the ...