Posts Tagged With: National newspapers
Express pawns avoid the P-word at Leveson inquiry
Express owner Richard Desmond may have bristled with confidence, but his editors were decidedly less sure-footedEven the dullest passages of Lord Justice Leveson’s phone-hacking inquiry are punctuated by outbursts of discreet sniggering, none more welc… Continue reading
Richard Desmond plays down his papers’ Madeleine McCann mistakes
Express and Star owner apologises to toddler’s parents at Leveson inquiry, but says his papers were ‘scapegoated’ by PCCRichard Desmond has tried to play down mistakes made by his newspapers over their defamatory coverage of missing Madeleine McCann at… Continue reading
‘Daily Express right quit to PCC because it failed to stop McCann libels’
Paper’s editor tells Leveson inquiry that regulator was not proactive enough in preventing excesses in press coverageThe editor of the Daily Express has justified its decision to quit the Press Complaints Commission by complaining that the press body f… Continue reading
Leveson inquiry: Express papers used investigator five years after sentencing
Head of legal says review has found payments to search agencies for work including research on ‘Rothermere’ projectNewspapers owned by Richard Desmond continued to make use of Steve Whittamore until 2010 – five years after the investigator pleaded gu… Continue reading
Leveson inquiry: Richard Desmond, Peter Hill, Hugh Whittow – live
Full coverage as the Daily Express owner and editors past and present appear at the media standards inquiry1.06pm: The inquiry has broken for lunch, after which Whittow will resume giving evidence.1.05pm: Whittow says the future vision of the paper is … Continue reading
Daily Mail pays Neil Morrissey damages over false binge-drinking story
Article falsely claimed Men Behaving Badly actor was banned from French bar for ‘rowdy, drunken’ behaviourMen Behaving Badly actor Neil Morrissey has received an apology and “substantial” damages from the Daily Mail over an article that falsely claimed… Continue reading
Timeline: Mail on Sunday and private investigator Steve Whittamore
How events have unfolded in relationship between newspaper and private investigator• Mail on Sunday used investigator after he was charged, editor admits at Leveson inquiryFebruary 2003Steve Whittamore supplies Mail on Sunday with confidential DVLA i… Continue reading
Paul Dacre had hand in accusing Hugh Grant of smears, Leveson inquiry hears
Dacre was involved in drafting statement following Grant’s claim that Mail on Sunday could have hacked his phonePaul Dacre, the Associated Newspapers editor-in-chief, had a hand in the drafting of the Daily Mail publisher’s statement accusing Hugh Gran… Continue reading
Leveson inquiry: Peter Wright’s witness statement – full text
Mail on Sunday editor’s written evidence to the inquiry into media standards and phone hacking
Richard Desmond at the Leveson inquiry: no time for ethics
The former Daily Star reporter who quit in protest at alleged ‘anti-Muslim’ coverage reviews his former boss’s evidenceScruffy geezers doing Dan Dare stuff. South American chess correspondents. Talking drums with Tony Blair.Welcome to the world accordi… Continue reading »