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08 July 2013	Independent Press Standards Organisation
14 June 2013	Lord Lester Slams Leveson Royal Charter – Index on Censorship
13 June 2013	NS President Summarises Six Major Local Press Concerns over State-Sponsored Royal Charter
13 June 2013	Free Arbitration Could Cost Local Papers Thousands of Pounds, MPs Told
06 June 2013	Sir Ray Tindle: ‘Press Regulation Must Not Add to the Burden on Local Papers’
6 June 2013	WAN-IFRA Calls on David Cameron to Withdraw Government Royal Charter
30 May 2013	Newspaper Publishers Across Europe Oppose Calls for EU Press Regulation
17 May 2013	EDITOR’S COMMENT: Tarring my newspaper with the same brush as the phone hackers is ridiculous – Derbyshire Times
13 May 2013	Local Press Held to Ransom After Leveson, Say Editors – The Times
12 May 2013	Police ‘Ordered to Slant Crime Data’ – Telegraph
9 May 2013	Industry Implementation Group Statement
9 May 2013	Newspaper Groups Unified Behind ‘softer’ Royal Charter Independent
8 May 2013	BBC Let us Down over Leveson, Claims Former Radio 4 Journalist – Guardian
7 May 2013	Local Publishers Confirm Support for Independent Royal Charter in Run-up to Local Newspaper Week
6 May 2013	Ministers Made a Poor Use of Parliament on Press Regulation
3 May 2013	World’s Press Backs UK Media Industry’s Self-Regulatory Proposal
2 May 2013	Royal Charter: Regional and Scottish Press Reaction
2 May 2013	How Hacked Off is stifling Press law debate, by senior Tory John Whittingdale
2 May 2013	Responding to Hacked Off
1 May 2013	Royal Charter for Independent Self Regulation of the Press Formally Submitted to Privy Council
30 Apr 2013	Royal Charter for Independent Self Regulation of the Press Formally Submitted to Privy Council
30 Apr 2013	Press Regulation : Letter from Lord Wakeham – The Telegraph
30 Apr 2013	Newspaper industry’s regulation plan deserves fair hearing – The Telegraph
30 Apr 2013	Newspaper industry’s regulation plan deserves fair hearing – The Telegraph
25 Apr 2013	An independent Royal Charter would ensure press regulation that was robust and independent but still voluntary and consistent with a free press – The Times
25 Apr 2013	The key to a fair and free press is the difference between two Royal Charters – The Mirror
25 Apr 2013	A new Charter – The Sun
25 Apr 2013	A truly independent regulator of the Press – The Daily Mail
25 Apr 2013	Self-regulation that is tough but independent – The Telegraph
25 Apr 2013	Newspaper and magazine publishers apply for Royal Charter on press regulation to implement Leveson recommendationst
18 Mar 2013	NS President Statement on Royal Charter Cross-Party Agreement
15 Mar 2013	NS Urges Clegg and Miliband: Don’t Ignore the Local Press on Leveson
14 Mar 2013	Industry Response to Leveson Developments
25 Feb 2013	Peter Preston: ‘Leveson Sees Journalism as an Exercise in Providing Cases for the Courts to Examine’
17 Feb 2013	We Will All Lose if Papers are Wrapped Up in Chains
14 Feb 2013	Leveson and a Gag on Whistleblowers
03 Feb 2013	After the Hutton Inquiry, How Can Any Broadcaster Claim to be Free?
22 Jan 2013	EU Officials Hope to Use Leveson’s Proposals to Ensure British Press Promotes ‘European Values’
15 Jan 2013	Hacked Off’s Proposed Bill Would ‘Substantially Undermine Press Freedom’, Say MPs
10 Jan 2013	Leveson: Lord Hunt Meets Publishers and Editors
09 Jan 2013	Toby Young: The Enemies of Press Freedom Should Stop Handing out Prizes in the Name of George Orwell
08 Jan 2013	Kirsty Hughes, Index on Censorship: Reject Press Laws
08 Jan 2013	Leveson Failed to Learn from Credit Crisis
08 Jan 2013	How Investigative Journalism ‘Could be Harmed by Leveson’, says Information Commissioner
02 Jan 2013	Sir Christopher Meyer: Leveson’s Fatal Contradiction
31 Dec 2012	Leveson ‘Will Have Chilling Effect on Journalism’
20 Dec 2012	Cross-industry Group Meets Lord Hunt to Take Forward Leveson Principles
15 Dec 2012	Finucane Case Shows the Troubles with Leveson Report
14 Dec 2012	Leveson: Newspaper and Magazine Publishers Respond to Government
13 Dec 2012	Lord Hunt Presses Ahead with Industry Plans for New Self-Regulatory System
12 Dec 2012	Maria Miller’s Adviser Reminds us Why Politicians Can’t be Trusted with Press Regulation
10 Dec 2012	Council of Europe Warns on Leveson plan
09 Dec 2012	Peter Preston: State Media Regulation? Ask the Reporters in Turkey’s Jails How it Works
06 Dec 2012	Editors Agree on New Regulation System for Press
06 Dec 2012	Local Press is Central to Achieving an Industry Solution on Leveson
05 Dec 2012	Lord Black: The Press Will Now Move With the ‘Utmost Speed’ to Embrace the ‘Leveson Principles’
04 Dec 2012	David Ottewell: Public Doesn’t Want Law to Control Press
02 Dec 2012	Leveson Report: Compulsory Press Regulation ‘Illegal’
02 Dec 2012	Chakrabarti Backs Cameron as Leveson Panel Splits
02 Dec 2012	Peter Preston: Leveson – an Elephantine, Sloppy Exercise in Cut-and-Paste
02 Dec 2012	The Scandal that State Control Would Have Buried
30 Nov 2012	Simon Jenkins: Cameron is Right About Leveson. This is a Rubicon we Must not Cross
30 Nov 2012	Ian Hislop: Why Should I Answer to David Cameron? Leveson Said Much that Was Sensible – and Much that Wasn’t
30 Nov 2012	We’re Responsible to All Our Readers
30 Nov 2012	The Inquiry Has Succeeded in Many Ways, But a Press Law Would Not Be Right in Principle and is Not Needed
30 Nov 2012	NS President Welcomes Prime Minister’s Rejection of Leveson’s Statutory Backstop Proposals
29 Nov 2012	Adrian Jeakings : A free press cannot be free if it is dependent on and accountable to a regulatory body recognized by the state “The UK’s local media had nothing to do with the phone hacking scandal which prompted the Leveson Inquiry but we have been all too aware that hundreds of responsible regional and local newspapers would inevitably be caught up in any resulting new system of press regulation. We therefore welcome the Leveson Report’s praise for the important social and democratic role played by the local press, his acknowledgement that the criticisms of the culture, practices and ethics of the press raised in this inquiry were not directed at local newspapers and his recommendation that the regulatory model he proposes should not provide an added burden to our sector. However, local newspapers have always been vehemently opposed to any form of statutory involvement or underpinning in the regulation of the press, including the oversight by Ofcom proposed in the report. This would impose an unacceptable regulatory burden on the industry, potentially inhibiting freedom of speech and the freedom to publish. We believe the industry is in a position to establish the sort of tough new system of independent, accountable press regulation with the power to investigate wrongdoing and levy fines, envisaged by the report. All major news publishers – and some internet news providers – have indicated they will join such a system provided there is no statutory backstop. In practice, this independent self-regulatory system would almost certainly be stronger and more effective than any statutory model could ever be and could be put into place very quickly. Newspapers are ultimately accountable to their readers and must abide by the laws of the land. But, as the Prime Minister has today acknowledged, a free press cannot be free if it is dependent on and accountable to a regulatory body recognized by the state.” Adrian Jeakings, president of the Newspaper Society and chief executive of Archant
29 Nov 2012	Initial reaction to publication of Leveson Inquiry from the Free Speech Network : “Lord Justice Leveson has issued a challenge to the press to establish a new, tough system of regulation. I believe that the plan that the industry has put forward goes a long way to meeting that challenge. In those areas where the report expresses concern – such as independence and appointments procedures – we will study his proposals and I believe respond positively. However, there is no need to subject the new regulatory body to the statutory regime of OFCOM in order to achieve this. Any form of statutory press control in a free society is fraught with danger, totally impractical and would take far too long to implement.” Lord Black of Brentwood, Chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance
28 Nov 2012	CEO of News international, Tom Mockridge says press regulation requires ‘fundamental change’
28 Nov 2012	Sun Editory Dominic Mohan, warned he finds the idea of a state regulated press is terrifying.
28 Nov 2012	Sir David Frost: Once You Take Away the Freedom of the Press, it’s Very Difficult to get Back
28 Nov 2012	Leader: The Spectator Won’t be Part of a State Licensed Media
28 Nov 2012	Northern Press and the Leveson Inquiry
27 Nov 2012	Bullies and the Need for a Free Press
27 Nov 2012	Leveson Report: State Regulation is ‘Greatest Threat to Newspapers in 300 years’, Say Conservative MPs
27 Nov 2012	Two Bucks MPs Rally to Defence of a Free Press Ahead of Leveson Inquiry Report
27 Nov 2012	No Guarantee that Leveson Recommendations will be Applied in Scotland
26 Nov 2012	Peter Barron: Why We Must Protect Press Freedom
26 Nov 2012	William Hague: You Have to Err on the Side of Press Freedom
26 Nov 2012	Lib Dem Deputy Opposed to Statutory Regulation of Press
25 Nov 2012	For 300 Years the British People have Fought – and Died – to Keep a Free Press. This Week our Prime Minister Must not Betray Them
24 Nov 2012	Owen Paterson Backs Call on Freedom of Press
24 Nov 2012	David Blunkett Warns MPs Against Regulating the Press
23 Nov 2012	Nick Pickles: A Pro-Business Party of Law and Order Should Reject Statutory Regulation of the Press
23 Nov 2012	Index on Censorship Issues Free Speech Warning for UK
22 Nov 2012	Ian Murray: I Wonder what the Mayans Would Have Done with Tabloid Editors?
21 Nov 2012	Jim Chisholm: Post-Leveson Legislation Poses Threat to Press Freedom
18 Nov 2012	Poll Shows Little Support for State Regulation of the Press
15 Nov 2012	Unfair Regulations on Regional Press
15 Nov 2012	State-run Watchdog ‘Will Gag Free Press’
14 Nov 2012	Raymond Snoddy: Shoddy Journalism and an Unrestrained Twitter
13 Nov 2012	John Whittingdale: Give Press One Last Chance to Regulate Themselves
13 Nov 2012	Leveson: Over the Regulatory Cliff?
13 Nov 2012	MP David Davis ‘Firmly Against’ Newspaper Watchdog
12 Nov 2012	State Regulation Did Nothing to Prevent this Smearing of an Innocent Man – But a Free Press Exposed it
12 Nov 2012	PCC Chief Lord Hunt of Wirral Warns on Orwellian Law
11 Nov 2012	As Lord Justice Leveson Ponders, the World of Media is in Chaos
09 Nov 2012	Leveson Inquiry: A Free Press is in the Public Interest
09 Nov 2012	SoE Director Warns that ‘Relentless Lobbying’ Threatens to Undermine the Leveson Report
09 Nov 2012	You Can’t be a Little Bit Pregnant. Either Britain Has a Press Entirely Free from the Government or it Doesn’t
09 Nov 2012	‘Is Britain the Only Country in the World Where Journalists are Campaigning for State Interference?’ says Society Director
08 Nov 2012	Defending the Press as an Unruly Mess
07 Nov 2012	Keep the Press Free: The Attitude of the National Union of Journalists Over Press Reform Will Alarm Many of its Members
07 Nov 2012	MP’s Attack on C4 Over Hugh Grant’s Leveson Documentary
06 Nov 2012	Journos’ Outrage at NUJ’s Backing of Government Press Control
06 Nov 2012	John Whittingdale: Second Part of Leveson Inquiry May Never Take Place
05 Nov 2012	Press Gazette Poll Suggests Majority Are Opposed to NUJ Leadership Stance on Statutory-backed Press Regulation
04 Nov 2012	Mail on Sunday Comment: Why the PM’s Texts Had to Be Revealed
04 Nov 2012	Leveson: The Grass Wouldn’t Be Much Greener With an Irish-style Ombudsman
03 Nov 2012	Critics Fear MPs’ Plan to Call Leveson Could Turn into Televised ‘Grilling’
02 Nov 2012	Statutory Regulation of the Press is Based on a False Premise, Says Media Lawyer
02 Nov 2012	The Global War on Free Speech
02 Nov 2012	Leveson Inquiry: Prejudging the Judge
01 Nov 2012	What the Papers Won’t Say
01 Nov 2012	Whose Freedom? Whose Press?
31 Oct 2012	Ed’s in Trouble with Leveson
30 Oct 2012	Leveson Report Delayed Until Late November
30 Oct 2012	FT: Industry Plan for Reformed System of Self Regulation Needs Tweaking But is Basically Sound
30 Oct 2012	Leveson Inquiry: New Laws ‘Would Not Have Stopped Topless Kate Middleton Pictures’
30 Oct 2012	We Must Not Compromise Freedom of the Press
30 Oct 2012	Leveson, the British Media and the Law
30 Oct 2012	Press Curbs Would Not Have Stopped the Topless Kate or Naked Harry Photos, Says Former BBC Chairman Grade
29 Oct 2012	A Journalist Jailed for Exposing Tax Cheats – Don’t Kid Yourself It Couldn’t Happen Here
29 Oct 2012	Leveson Can’t Stop Naked Pictures of Prince Harry and Kate Being Published, Warns Former BBC Chairman Michael Grade
29 Oct 2012	Do Not Muzzle Our Free Press: Eric Pickles Defies PM and Speaks Out Over Leveson Report
29 Oct 2012	Boris Johnson: Newspapers Are Worth Fighting For – Even When They’re Wrong
29 Oct 2012	Press Must Never Come Under State Control
28 Oct 2012	Leveson: Minister Opposes Tough Press Laws
28 Oct 2012	Labour’s Harriet Harman Demands Media Regulation
28 Oct 2012	Statute of Any Kind Spells the End of a Free Press
27 Oct 2012	Liberty: A Noble Cause in Need of Dirty Hands
26 Oct 2012	Leveson to Recommend ‘Light Touch’ Press Regulation
26 Oct 2012	Lord Black Lauds Press Self-regulation Ahead of Leveson Report
26 Oct 2012	Why Press Gazette is Backing Campaign Against Statutory Regulation of the Press
26 Oct 2012	London Mayor Boris Johnson Says Yes to Free Speech
26 Oct 2012	Britain’s vibrant Press Must Not Be Curbed Says Boris: Top Tories Warn PM Against State Regulation
25 Oct 2012	The Threat to Press Freedom
25 Oct 2012	We Must Not Compromise Freedom of Press
25 Oct 2012	Boris Johnson: We’ve Got to Fight to Keep Our Free Press
25 Oct 2012	Tindle Warns of ‘Biggest Threat to Free Press in 65 Years’
25 Oct 2012	Tindle: Statutory Regulation Is ‘Worst Threat I Have Known in My 65 Years of Active Service in Newspapers’
25 Oct 2012	Boris Johnson: We Must Fight to Keep the Press Free
25 Oct 2012	M.E.N Editor Rob Irvine: Why Press Must Stay Free to Be A Nuisance
25 Oct 2012	Britain’s Press Must Remain Free
25 Oct 2012	Tough. Independent. And Free. A New System of Regulation for Newspapers, Magazines, and Internet News Providers
25 Oct 2012	What is Wrong With Statute
23 Oct 2012	Newspaper Society Opposes Any State Role in Press Regulation
22 Oct 2012	In Defence of the Tabloids: ‘Every big story involves some underhand tactics’
20 Oct 2012	Publishers Form Free Speech Network to Fight Off Statutory Press Regulation
20 Oct 2012	A Free Society Needs a Free Press
20 Oct 2012	Censored
19 Oct 2012	Yes to Press Freedom – But ‘A Dab of Statute’ Will Stop Abuses of Freedom
17 Oct 2012	Leveson Poses a Risk to the Responsible Media
17 Oct 2012	Francis Maude: We Must Defend Press Freedom
17 Oct 2012	Fears Press Curbs Would Risk Freedom
17 Oct 2012	Mum Praises Daily Mail for ‘Non-Stop’ Support as Gary McKinnon Wins Fight Against Extradition
14 Oct 2012	David Newell: Why You Cannot Have a Little Bit of Statute
13 Oct 2012	Leveson Could Find a Draconian Solution to Press Regulation in Ireland
10 Oct 2012	David Newell: Your Freedom to Publish
09 Oct 2012	Liverpool Echo Editor Warns of Dangers of Statutory Regulation
26 Sep 2012	Transcript of the Lord Chief Justice’s Annual Press Conference 2012
22 Sep 2012	Making Trouble is the Greatest Press Freedom of All
15 Sep 2012	Burn the Tabloids – And Our Freedom is Next
05 Sep 2012	Leveson: Drawing up the Battlelines
13 Jan 2012	Levson Inquiry: Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press – Submission of the Newspaper Society
18 Oct 2011	Lord Chief Justice’s Speech on Press Regulation – Full Text