The Press Recognition Panel has been officially declared to be part of Government department the Ministry of Justice.   In a letter to the Treasury in December, PRP chairman David Wolfe QC said he did not know that the PRP had been...

The High Court has today upheld the Government’s decision not to proceed with part two of the Leveson Inquiry after a judicial review brought by four claimants after a fundraising drive by Hacked Off.   Alongside the local and national news...

Social media is the most harmful online environment with 71 per cent of those who had experienced harm online through interaction with other internet users naming social media as the place where it had taken place, according to Ofcom. According...

An acclaimed regional press journalist who was singled out for praise by Jeremy Corbyn has warned of the profound dangers for local journalism of the draconian press regulation regime advocated by the Labour leader. Writing for The Spectator in response...

IPSO’s compulsory arbitration scheme has launched. Anyone who has a valid legal claim against a newspaper can now make it through the IPSO scheme for a maximum fee of £100 and the newspaper has no choice but to arbitrate, IPSO...

Paul Dacre has announced that he is to step aside as editor of the Daily Mail after 26 years. DMGT chairman Lord Rothermere described him as "quite simply the greatest Fleet Street Editor of his generation" and praised him for...

Members of the House of Lords have backed down on their campaign to use the Data Protection Bill as a platform to enact a sweeping Leveson 2-style inquiry into the media, allowing the Bill to receive Royal Assent yesterday...

The one-day appeal hearing in which the NMA will appeal against the outcome of the judicial review of the Press Recognition Panel’s decision to recognise IMPRESS will be held on 17 January next year. Last month, the Court of Appeal...

MPs have rejected moves to enact a Leveson 2-style inquiry into the media for the second time in the space of a week after the House of Lords tagged an amendment onto the Data Protection Bill which would have...