News #cablegate: Newspapers playing a vital role in giving context to leak, says Rusbridger Speaking on the Today programme this morning, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said that affiliate newspapers are essential to provide redactions and contest to WikiLeaks material By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Media Standards Trust calls for greater transparency over PCC libel settlement MST has written an open letter to the board that finances the PCC, posing a series of questions about the cost of the settlement and who paid By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News #soe10: Time to move on from phone-hacking scandal, says Society of Editors president Donald Martin claims the issue is becoming 'increasingly corrosive' and 'deflecting attention from more serious and urgent concerns' By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News FOI reform bill to receive second Commons reading today Bill proposed by Lib Dem Tom Brake aims to challenge delaying tactics by local councils, introducing a time limit for 'public interest' requests By Laura Oliver • 1 min read
News Julian Assange: Financial threats to WikiLeaks are serious Lack of funds and volume of content sent to the whistleblower has overwhelmed its submission system, says founder By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Guardian tribunal seeking Prince Charles' letters to ministers delayed until 2011 Five-year fight by the Guardian to free information about Prince Charles' involvement in government affairs to continue as Information Tribunal adjourned By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Leading lawyer says UK privacy law is threat to editorial freedom Investigative journalism and free speech will suffer from the UK's "creeping privacy law", claims Ken MacDonald QC By Laura Oliver • 2 min read
News Public interest journalism should be focus of privacy law reform, say campaigners Index on Censorship's Mike Harris says he welcomes the government's attention to privacy law but the focus needs to be the impact on public interest journalism over celebrity "title-tattle" By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Media academic defends criticisms of Welsh Trinity Mirror titles Alan Edmunds has responded to a report into two Welsh Trinity Mirror papers by media critic Andy Williams, calling the report "ill-informed" and "insulting" By Rachel Bartlett • 3 min read
News Media intervene in Supreme Court case to help define fair comment Associated Newspapers, the Guardian and the Times granted a rare intervention in the Supreme Court's first libel case, Spiller vs. Joseph By Rachel Bartlett • 2 min read
News Government to lead libel reform with new Defamation Bill Lord Lester's Bill prompts government to 'take the initiative' in reform of libel laws in England and Wales By Rachel Bartlett • 4 min read
News Max Mosley continues fight for prior notification ruling over privacy stories Former F1 boss argues that newspapers should notify subjects before publishing details about their private lives By Judith Townend • 3 min read
