The competitive conditions of the mass press from the 1920s onwards led to recurrent complaints about the way some newspapers were responsible for intrusions into privacy as well as sensationalism and ...

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.

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 ...

A previous version of this article is available here in Byline. It is updated and reproduced here with the author’s consent. “If there isn’t a Leveson II then I fear that we are not going to get to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An investigation in Byline Investigates has confirmed that, as other businesses struggle from the impact of COVID-19, £35m of taxpayers’ money has been handed over to corporate newspapers and their ...

Hacked Off and Byline Times held a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference, to address what a future Labour Government might do to raise press standards. The striking theme which emerged from the ...

Gareth Thomas suffered serious intrusion and abuse at the hands of a British newspaper. Noone should be blackmailed into revealing private details of their health in a newspaper, while living in fear ...

In 1987, private investigator Daniel Morgan was murdered in the car park of The Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, South London. Five police investigations into the circumstances surrounding his death were ...