Katie Hopkins has won an IPSO complaint against the Mirror after it wrongly claimed she had been detained in South Africa over drug use. She was in fact being held for "spreading racial hatred". Full story to follow.
Daily Mirror OK to describe Matt Hancock as "a failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote, doubled down on the lies he told, helped enrich his mates via the infamous VIP PPE lane..." - IPSO ruling
TalkTV has issued an apology and paid “substantial damages” to a migrants’ rights charity over defamatory claims made on Mike Graham's show that the organisation were “human traffickers”
Labour MP Chris Bryant has said news coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'knowingly monetises hatred' of the couple and that columnists write 'drivel' about them 'not because the writer genuinely cares about it, but because it makes money'
Toby Young was writer behind misleading claims in Telegraph that having a cold could offer protection against coronavirus and London was approaching herd immunity in July.
IPSO has ruled against the title here:
Telegraph comment piece breached Editors' Code with "significantly misleading" statement that "misrepresented the nature of immunity" by implying people previously exposed to some colds might be automatically immune to symptoms and to spreading Covid-19
BREAKING: Ofcom has sanctioned London Live, saying its recent 80-minute interview with David Icke broke broadcasting rules as his comments on coronavirus "risked causing significant harm to viewers" and went "largely unchallenged" by the interviewer
Emily Maitlis: “I think one of the scariest things for me during the pandemic, if I’m honest, is when we had senior politicians of all stripes saying, ‘Now is not the time to ask this.’ Or, ‘Now is not the time to raise questions about this.’"
Dan Wootton is seeking damages, an apology and the retraction of articles from Byline Times.
Press Gazette understands that Wootton’s legal team is also writing to Carol Vorderman and Emily Maitlis over statements made by them on Twitter
BBC health editor
@BBCHughPym
named winner of Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism.
There was praise for his "ability to explain some of the complex causes of the Covid-19 pandemic" that became a defining feature of coverage in past 6 months
"The UK media is not bigoted and will not be swayed from its vital role holding the rich and powerful to account following the attack on the press by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex": Robust statement from
@EditorsUK
following Meghan and Harry's interview
Winner of the Comment Journalism award is
@MarinaHyde
of
@guardian
who the judges described as “clever, innovative and on consistently on the ball”
#BJA2019
NEW: Sky News journalist Colin Brazier is joining GB News to anchor a daytime news, interview and debate programme.
He described it as an "irresistible new challenge, a chance to build an innovative news channel alongside some of British journalism’s most trusted names"
NEW: Buzzfeed will no longer run a dedicated UK or Australian news operation, resulting in staff being furloughed and stood down. Some UK staff will be retained to cover global news for the US. The decision has been made "both for economic and strategic reasons", a spox said.
Asked if Harry had given up his right to privacy, IPSO's chair said: “In general terms, when considering whether there has been a violation of privacy it is legitimate to consider whether an individual has brought into the public domain their private life"
Telegraph comment piece breached Editors' Code with "significantly misleading" statement that "misrepresented the nature of immunity" by implying people previously exposed to some colds might be automatically immune to symptoms and to spreading Covid-19
Rupert Murdoch describes Piers Morgan as "the broadcaster every channel wants but is too afraid to hire. Piers is a brilliant presenter, a talented journalist and says what people are thinking and feeling"
Journalist
@garyyounge
has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities
Jill Rutter says journalists should tell No 10 to speak on the record if they want to say something. Points to Dominic Cummings’ “midnight ravings”. “I think journalists have been co-opted into being useful idiots for No 10,” she goes on.
#mediabrexit
The latest police force to arrest journalists performing their duty and covering a protest is
@HertsPolice
. The power of arrest is a huge deal, arbitrarily restraining someone. Apparently part of a pattern of behaviour in clear breach of ACPO guidelines and UK law.
Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and
@tomsdinner
, a press photographer, got arrested by
@HertsPolice
whilst filming the
@JustStopOil
protest from a public footbridge over the
#M25
.
🧵....
For the second year in a row the Comment Journalism prize goes to
@MarinaHyde
of
@guardian
– chairman of the judges
@DomPonsford
says “at the moment she seems to be comment journalism what Daly Thomson was to the decathalon in the 1980s”
#BJA2020
Former Sun executive editor Fergus Shanahan: “In 35 years on Fleet Street I never saw the bigotry and racism alleged."
However, many journalists and members of the public share Prince Harry’s belief that the UK tabloid press is bigoted
NEW: Ofcom has rejected a Conservative Party complaint about the Channel 4 News climate debate which saw Boris Johnson represented by an ice sculpture after he refused to take part
Journalists complained that "unsubstantiated and controversial claims" about the UK press and the Royal family "were accepted as fact without challenge" in the Oprah interview
Mail on Sunday publishes court-ordered front page statement about Meghan Markle's copyright win on Boxing Day paper. The original order came in March but was delayed by an appeal (which the paper has since lost). Details from March can be found here:
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and cameraman Ahmad Matar have been seriously wounded in a "targeted" Israeli drone strike north of Rafah. Abu Omar has had his right leg amputated and doctors are attempting to save his left leg
At time of writing press regulator IPSO has received 5,500 complaints about the Mail on Sunday Angela Rayner article alleging inaccuracy, harassment and discrimination
New: Mail Online publisher Associated Newspapers makes complaint to Viacom CBS about headlines used in Oprah's Harry/Meghan interview to show "racism" in UK press. Called edited clippings a "deliberate distortion and doctoring" with some not even from UK titles. Story to follow
LBC's
@mrjamesob
has explained why he won't give airtime to anti-vaxxers and Covid-19 conspiracy theorists: ' I just can't obviously use this platform to promote opinions or ideas that will kill other people. "
The former CEO of the charity Mermaids Susie Green has had a complaint against The Sunday Times rejected. IPSO said it was acceptable to refer to her daughter using male pronouns prior to her gender transition surgery at age 16
Blind journalism student Kate Pounds has passed her 100wpm NCTJ shorthand exam using a braille code from 1959 combined with Teeline lessons and a specialist note-taking device. She said she hoped to inspire other visually-impaired journalists. More here:
CORRECTION: No 10 now says they gave us the wrong information earlier and tonight's briefing will be a blend of questions from journalists and the public as normal
80% of journalists come from elite backgrounds according to a new report from the NCTJ.
Working class representation was found to be actually getting worse over time.
Tommy Robinson handed interim stalking prevention order against Independent home affairs correspondent Lizzie Dearden and her boyfriend after threatening to falsely accuse him of being a paedophile to try and stop a negative story. Application for full order to be held in July
GB News launches today! Good luck
@afneil
and co. You can read our in-depth briefing on the new channel here with a full list of presenters, where you can watch it and what the schedule is looking like.
Mail on Sunday loses Meghan privacy judgment appeal. Markle says: "This is a victory not just for me, but for anyone who has ever felt scared to stand up for what’s right." Background on MoS appeal here:
Ex-head of Sky News John Ryley has said an advertising boycott of
@GBNEWS
is "a threat to free speech, putting the business model of this start-up in jeopardy" and "an insult to the British people".
BBC Newsnight is showing a big investigation tonight into the business dealings of Michelle Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman.
@DanNeidle
, who worked on the story, said post Newsnight cuts there will be nowhere on UK TV to run investigations like this.
Actor Michael Sheen, who wants more inclusivity in media, announces 11 writers to be supported by A Writing Chance which he co-funds with
@jrf_uk
+ support from
@DailyMirror
&
@NewStatesman
. He says they "go way beyond the hopes I had for this project"
Long-serving Guardian columnist
@HadleyFreeman
is leaving the paper at the end of November.
She will begin as a columnist, interviewer and features writer at The Sunday Times in January
New BBC social media guidelines published, inc:
- Ban on 'virtue signalling... no matter how apparently worthy the cause'
- Journalists must use all personal accounts as if they are BBC output
- No more breaking stories on personal accounts
- No criticising colleagues
Actress Lily James has won a harassment and privacy complaint against Mail Online over 51 articles the site published about her between October 2020 and February 2021
New: ITV's Charlene White has quit as host of
@EditorsUK
Press Awards being held virtually on 31 March. She says it needs a host "whose views align with yours: that the UK press is the one institution in the entire country who has a perfect record on race"
"There are all these individual fights in Malta, Hong Kong, all over the world, in Belarus, but I think we are all - maybe even without knowing - working together and fighting against the same kind of people, the same kind of systems" -
@mcaruanagalizia
Harpo Productions lawyer: 'The portrayal of the Daily Mail in the montage you complain about was either literally true... or substantially true that is, it was not materially false. Harpo will not change the montage'
Drinks company Kopparberg has already suspended its ads from GB News "pending further review of its content".
@StopFundingHate
are leading the calls for an ad boycott.
@deplorabristol
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We want to make it clear to everyone that our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent. Kopparberg is a drink for everyone and we have immediately suspended our ads from this channel pending further review of its content
NEW: IPSO has upheld a complaint against a Boris Johnson column in the Telegraph saying polls showed no-deal Brexit was the preferred option “by some margin” after it could not provide any data to back the claim
UK journalists could be jailed like spies under proposed Official Secrets Act changes - journalists and media orgs are being urged to protest the proposals in the Govt consultation which closes at 11.45pm this Thursday
Northern Echo scooped the nationals with story on Dominic Cummings' council tax bill after a four-month investigation by
@GavinHaveryEcho
.
It landed on editor
@KarlDHolbrook
's second day in the job and resulted in the title's highest ever traffic day
“There’s a bit of selective memory going on. I mean, obviously a lot of the coverage of Meghan particularly was effusive and supportive and congratulatory,"
@CamillaTominey
says of Prince Harry's criticism of the press
BREAKING: IPSO rules Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex was sexist and breached Editors’ Code. The Sun has been ordered to point to the adjudication on its front page
“The media that greeted Meghan’s arrival in the royal family, a lot of it was extraordinarily racist and misogynistic. And there are a lot of problems in the way that we cover the royals" said
@catherine_mayer
Warning: UK journalists could be jailed like spies under proposed Official Secrets Act changes + much fought-for public interest defence still not being introduced
UPDATE: ITV has now removed a fifth headline from montage criticising the press in its on-demand version of the Oprah Meghan/Harry interview, this one a column from the Telegraph's Michael Deacon
"It drives viewing and earns advertising income, which is why so many British opinion writers pen so much drivel about the couple.
“Not because the story matters, not because the writer genuinely cares about it, but because it makes money"
LBC News has announced that it will broadcast the Classified Football Results at 5:05pm each Saturday afternoon, beginning this weekend. It comes after they were dropped from Radio 5 Live this week