Index hosts a Google Hangout with New York-based Guardian Digital journalist James Ball, and LA Times London correspondent, Henry Chu
Media freedom: In good health or under threat – how do the US and EU compare?
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CATEGORY: United Kingdom
State of UK media freedom slammed by international press organisation
A new report by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers criticises the restriction of press freedom in the name of national security, the Royal Charter press regulator and the UK’s lack of constitutional guarantees for freedom of expression
Index welcomes WAN-IFRA report on UK press freedom
Index welcomes the report by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) on the worrying state of press freedom in the UK. The WAN-IFRA report criticises the use of national security concerns to threaten and restrict...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival (18-28 March)
The film festival brings to life human rights abuses through storytelling in a way that challenges each individual to empathise and demand justice for all people.
EDL “terrorise” Legoland staff over Muslim family day out
The Daily Mail was labelled “hateful” by Muslim organisations for its coverage of the episode, Alastair Sloan writes
On FIFA, shirt message bans and controversy
Let’s just ban the controversy before it happens. It’s easier that way, Milana Knezevic writes
London calls for release of Al Jazeera journalists held in Egypt
People gathered in Trafalgar Square on Thursday for a silent protest in support of jailed journalists
Censorship and university student unions
Degree leader Matt Grimes asks why censorship issues have arisen at UK universities — the very places that should be open to competing ideas and consistency.
Life After Leveson: The UK media in 2014
Britain has always had a complicated relationship with the free press. On the one hand, Milton’s Apologia, Mill’s On Liberty, Orwell’s volleys at censorship and propaganda. On the other hand, there is a sense that journalists, editors and...
New press regulator would not stop phone hacking, says Index panel
Doughty Street Chambers and Index on Censorship hosted a debate on the state of press freedom in the UK after the Leveson inquiry