In 2015 I began work for the Herald Newspapers as a freelance reporter covering the Llanelli area of Carmarthenshire. It was my home town and I had a lot of contacts. The paper was relatively unknown ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hacked Off Campaign was established in 2011 in response to the phone-hacking revelations and campaigns for a free and accountable press for the public. We work closely with victims of press abuse ...

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.

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 ...

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver a free & accountable press. It could be just eighteen months until the next General Election, which is poised to provide a generational ...

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 ...

The team and I believe that the traditional model of local newspapers is no longer sustainable, as journalists are often required to churn out excessive numbers of stories each day to reach arbitrary ...

Out of 14173 complaints, only 88 were upheld. That’s a rate of 0.6%. 2126 complaints were given up on. 30 complaints related to content in newspapers’ unmoderated comment sections which IPSO refuses ...