Hacked Off is the leading campaign for higher standards in the press in the UK. We support implementation of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, an 18-month judge-led inquiry into press ethics ...
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, ...
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 ...
The UK’s independent authority on press standards, the Press Recognition Panel (PRP), has today published a report reviewing the activities of IPSO, the complaints-handler controlled by the press. The ...
Hacked Off CEO Nathan Sparkes said, “Today’s judgement lays bare the extraordinary cover-up which has taken place at Mirror Group Newspapers over the last two decades. It paints the picture of a ...
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 ...
The Government has announced plans to undermine the Leveson system of independent press regulation, by repealing the legislation known as “section 40” in the King’s Speech. Section 40 underpins ...
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 ...
The video platform Rumble appears to be close to benefiting from the “press loophole” in the Online Safety Bill which was lobbied for by national newspapers. The Online Safety Bill was designed to ...
The revelation that the Daily Mail are attaching Black names and faces to racist articles which have been ghost-written by other journalists – who, based on the make up of most UK newsrooms, are ...
The Sun last night released a statement in light of the news that Huw Edwards is not facing police action, and has been hospitalised with a mental health crisis. “BBC SEX PROBE: Top BBC star who ‘paid ...
Earlier this week the MailOnline published an article featuring detailed commentary, videos and images of an actress experiencing what appears to be a moment of acute mental illness. There is no ...