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CATEGORY: Media Freedom
Dunja Mijatović: Resisting the urge to over regulate the media
The trend towards ramping up the regulation of the media has worrying implications.
Section 40: Local newspapers respond to “dangerous lunacy”
Local newspapers have an extremely important role in shining a light on corruption, danger and crime in their communities.
What is Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013?
Section 40 does not protect “ordinary” individuals as its advocates claim. It protects the rich and powerful and is a gift to the corrupt and conniving to silence investigative journalists – particularly media outfits that don’t have very deep pockets.
If another country had a press law like Section 40, Britain would condemn it for persecuting journalists
For years Index of Censorship has monitored state interference in news reporting, from the authoritarian Chile in 1970s to North Korea today.
Section 40 jeopardises press freedom
Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 is a danger to a free press. We urge you to take action.
Freedom of the press and a state regulator
This letter appeared in The Times on 16 December 2016 Sir, Index on Censorship has published stories by censored writers for more than four decades....
Section 40 of Crime and Courts Act 2013 poses threat to press freedom
Impress has been recognised as an approved regulator by the Press Regulation Panel under the Royal Charter.
Letter: Crime and Courts Act 2013 danger to free press
The Crime and Courts Act 2013, as it stands, is a danger to a free press. Under the act, a publisher can be ordered to pay both sides’ costs in a dispute if the publisher is not a member of an approved regulator.
Index fears recognition of Impress could stifle investigative journalism and threaten press freedom
Index on Censorship welcomes the delay in the royal charter recognition of Impress by the Press Regulation Panel and hopes it provides an opportunity for further consultation.
Index on Censorship response to the IMPRESS consultation
November 2014 (PDF) As a UK-based organisation dedicated to the promotion of free speech and elimination of censorship worldwide, Index on...
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...
Media freedom is under threat worldwide. Journalists are threatened, jailed and even killed simply for doing their job.
Index on Censorship documents threats to media freedom in Europe via a unique monitoring project and campaigns against laws that stifle journalists’ work. We also publish an award-winning magazine featuring work by and about censored journalists. Learn more.
