http://www.cpbf.org.uk Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom News Feed en-us Copyright 2008, CPBF gherman@KeywordsAssociates.com (Gary Herman) webmaster@cpbf.org.uk (Gary Herman) http://www.cpbf.org.uk/images/cpbflogo.gif http://www.cpbf.org.uk 88 31 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2898 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2898 DATELINE: 21/5/13 Scotland Yard on Monday defended a decision it made not to take action over intelligence it received alleging leaks of internal secrets from its andquot;inner sanctumandquot;, potentially to the News of the World (NoW). The intelligence is contained in a Met document generated in April 2006 at a time when the then commissioner, Sir Ian Blair (now Lord Blair), faced internal ructions and a hostile press. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2897 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2897 DATELINE: 19/5/13 Are you available to come to our special media conference entitled, After Leveson, is Citizen Journalism the Answer? on Saturday 8 June? Please publicise through your network: http://www.the-latest.com/after-leveson-citizen-journalism-answer?. Weand#39;re pitching it as follows: The event, at the London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB, is being hosted by the Citizen journalism Educational Trust and the-Latest.Com, and builds on the success of their Media and the Riots conference that brought young people and journalists face to face. The Leveson Inquiry accepted the conference report as evidence. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2896 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2896 DATELINE: 11/5/13 There is a strange kind of hypocrisy in the way some Fleet Street representatives use and abuse the notion of Parliamentary approval. As it happens, the claim that the cross-party Royal Charter andndash; which will now be delayed beyond May 15 - has not been approved by Parliament is misleading at best. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2895 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2895 DATELINE: 10/5/13 Newspaper owners have backed down on demands to have a veto over the board members of any new press regulator. A statement published on behalf of major publishers said appointments should instead be made by andquot;consensusandquot;. Some owners wanted the power to block those they saw as hostile to the press. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2894 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2894 DATELINE: 10/5/13 The Press Standards Board of Finance Limited (Pressbof) has submitted to the Privy Council Office a petition for a Royal Charter. As with all Charter petitions, the relevant Government department, in this case the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), will be considering this Charter, drawing in views from other Government departments as required. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2893 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2893 DATELINE: 7/5/13 The National Union of Journalists marked Word Press Freedom Day 2013 on 2 May with a public meeting focused on the plight of journalists in Turkey: a multi-party state and would-be EU member that doesnand#39;t warrant the term democracy given the behaviour of the majority party toward its critics. Turkey recognises in law a thousand and one varieties of andquot;terroristandquot;, and has a reputation for jailing large numbers of journalists. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2892 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2892 DATELINE: 3/5/13 To mark World Press Freedom Day, Friday 3 March 2013, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has written to the Brussels embassies of the four countries in the world with the highest numbers of imprisoned journalists to demand their release. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2891 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2891 DATELINE: 1/5/13 Except for a few passing references the BBC programme Rupert Murdoch: Battle with Britain made no attempt to examine how over the last thirty years his two tabloid newspapers the Sun and the News of the World helped to establish what became a hidden underworld where journalists were encouraged to pay cash for private and often illicitly-gained information. http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2890 http://www.cpbf.org.uk/body.php?id=2890 DATELINE: 27/4/13 The alternative press regulation proposals drawn up by the press industry get a big airing in Fridayand#39;s national newspapers. It signals the opening of a potentially bitter battle between press and parliament, underlining the determination of most publishers and editors to reject the royal charter agreed by politicians and peers. The Daily Mailand#39;s news story explaining the significance of the industryand#39;s own charter is given a full page in which it hammers home what it believes to be the threat to andquot;Britainand#39;s 300-year-old free press.andquot;