1 February 2002 – The departure of Lord Wakeham from the chairmanship of the Press Complaints Commission in the wake of the Enron scandal is doubly significant. On the one hand it represents an all-too-rare example of an honourable and … Continue reading
20 August 2001 – The Sun has lost its appeal against the decision of County Court judge Roger Cox to permit former police station clerk Esther Thomas to sue the paper under the 1997 Protection from Harassment Act (see PressWise … Continue reading
6 August 2001 – There’s a plumb job in the media coming up quite soon: chief executive of the Office of Communications (Ofcom), the new ‘super-regulator’ which will bring together the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Independent Television Commission, the Radiocommunications … Continue reading
12 July 2001 – Lord Wakeham, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, has been loudly defending the role of the Commission in dismissing complaints against The Sun for its payments to convicted train robber Ronnie Biggs, and lauding the PCC’s … Continue reading
27 June 2001 – Somewhere in Britain, sometime soon, a perfectly innocent 18-year-old boy is going to move into a new flat or a new job and be viciously assaulted; perhaps killed. This may not be the intent of the … Continue reading
Bulletin No 41, 19 March 2001 1.i We are disappointed to find that the opportunity has been missed to include the print media in the regulatory structure. The current system of self-regulation under the auspices of the Press Complaints Commission … Continue reading
6 February 2001 – It’s going to be quite a party. Prince Charles will be there, so will Prince William, Camilla Parker Bowles, Geri Halliwell and Claudia Schiffer. And all to celebrate 10 years of the Press Complaints Commission. PressWise, … Continue reading