MST response to Press Complaints Commission letter: “Suggestion of bad faith...
Anthony Salz, who is chair of the Independent Press Review Group and also on the Board of the Media Standards Trust, has replied to a letter from the chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Sir...
View ArticleTapping/hacking/blagging – the terminology
Media reports refer to both ‘phone tapping’ and ‘phone hacking’ when discussing the Guardian’s investigation into the use of private investigators by News International journalists. But what exactly...
View ArticleBBC: ‘We do use private detectives occasionally and exceptionally but never...
The BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards David Jordan this week revealed that the broadcaster does use private detectives “occasionally and exceptionally” to help with programmes, but...
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