The Cairncross Review was set up in 2018 to investigate the sustainability of high-quality journalism in the UK. It will look into: The overall state of the news media market. Threats to financial sustainability. The role and … Continue reading
22 May 2015 – The massive Mirror payouts for invasions of privacy in pursuit of headlines and the bottom line will not be the end of the scandals that have beset the British press in recent years. We can expect … Continue reading
23 February 2015 – Columnist Peter Oborne did us all a favour with his much publicised resignation from The Daily Telegraph over its supine approach to the HSBC bank scandals. His explanation drew attention to the increasingly problematic link between … Continue reading
11 October 2013 – The MediaWise Trust has sent all Westminster MPs a copy of How fragile is media credibility? the final report of a 14-nation academic study of Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe and the Arab World which … Continue reading
16 April 2013 – Andrew Gilligan’s imagination got the better of him this weekend when he sought to expose a European Union plot to hand over control of the press to the state. The MediaWise Trust, a registered charity which … Continue reading
20 March 2013 – If the Press think they have been dealt a bad hand by the Royal Charter, they have only their own to blame. Those who broke the law, or trampled on the rights of others with little … Continue reading
15 February 2013 – A free (and pluralist) press is one of the key guarantors of open democracy. An all-powerful press that holds politicians in its thrall is inimical to both freedom and democracy. Post-Leveson it would seem that key … Continue reading