Credit: By Julo (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons News The IMPRESS Project's plans for press regulation Crowdfunding is underway for a press regulation body aimed at supporting smaller publishers and hyperlocal sites as well as larger news outlets By Abigail Edge • 3 min read
News Leveson asks whether second half of inquiry should proceed Chair suggests part one of inquiry should go as far as possible, because part two overlaps with police investigations and could be 'delayed for very many months, if not longer' By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: ICO News ICO denies seeking to publish Operation Motorman files Newspaper is 'wrong' to claim that information commissioner will apply to courts for permission to make data public, ICO says By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News Lord Hunt: 'We will start again with a new regulator with teeth' Chair of the Press Complaints Commission, which is to close, suggests new regulator will see news outlets bound by 'commercial contracts' By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Sir Paul Stephenson: Police had 'very closed mindset' on hacking in 2009 Former Metropolitan police commissioner says force was 'hooked on a defensive strategy' based on an incorrect assumption about the original 2006 investigation By Paul McNally • 2 min read
Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA News John Yates: Friendship with NOTW executive 'not improper' John Yates, the officer leading the 2009 investigation into phone hacking, denies his 'close friendship' with Neil Wallis was inappropriate By Sarah Marshall • 3 min read
News Officer-turned-Times columnist: 'I did not exploit my contacts' Andy Hayman who was in charge of Operation Caryatid, the Met's 2006 phone-hacking investigation, told the Leveson inquiry he did not 'make a connection' between the Times and News of the World By Sarah Marshall • 2 min read
News Simon Hughes: MPs 'need to be ready to act' on Leveson report Liberal Democrat MP says he has made a bid for parliamentary time next spring to debate Leveson's findings as early as possible By Paul McNally • 1 min read
News Leveson: inquiry remains 'committed to free press' Lord Justice Leveson responds to critics, saying inquiry 'is doing no more than doing its mandated terms of reference' By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News New independent media regulator plan submitted to Leveson Lawyers, academics and journalists work together to create framework for an independent, voluntary 'Media Standards Authority' By Paul McNally • 2 min read
News Government remains committed to Leveson inquiry, says Cameron Prime minister says decision to set up inquiry into press standards is 'fully supported by the entire government' - despite comments by Michael Gove about its 'dangers' By Paul McNally • 3 min read
News Ian Edmondson: 'Culture of bullying' at News of the World Former news editor says 'every part of the paper' was 'dictated and controlled by the editor' By Paul McNally • 1 min read
