In Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK, Marianne Colbran charts how technology and culture have changed policing and news media over the past four decades. Colbran’s rich analysis is a valuable resource for readers worldwide on the rapidly changing landscapes of policing and journalism.
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Traditionally, legislative committees have been regarded as quite unimportant in the UK. Some scholars contend that recent reforms have substantially increased the powers of select committees, rendering them genuinely important to policy and the scrutiny of government; others see little sign of change. We examine House of Commons select committees in regard to exactly one indicator of significance, their newspaper coverage. We detect significant gains in salience of some committees, as compared to the period just before the Wright reforms (2005-10). But committees vary dramatically in coverage levels and trends, and it is unclear if their newspaper profiles continue to grow.

Traditionally, legislative committees have been regarded as quite unimportant in the UK. Some scholars contend that recent reforms have substantially increased the powers of select committees, rendering them genuinely important to policy and the scrutiny of government; others see little sign of change. We examine House of Commons select committees in regard to exactly one indicator of significance, their newspaper coverage. We detect significant gains in salience of some committees, as compared to the period just before the Wright reforms (2005-10). But committees vary dramatically in coverage levels and trends, and it is unclear if their newspaper profiles continue to grow.

Skyline International for Human Rights (SIHR) has officially launched its campaign, aiming to stop the commercial use of the spying software Pegasus, developed by Israeli company NSO Group. According to an investigation carried out by Citizen Lab and the French based organization Forbidden Stories, this technology has been used to facilitate violations and crimes against freedom of expression and human rights on an unprecedented scale. During its presentation at the event, Daniel Rivera, Skyline Director, mentioned that this technology was supposedly created to fight against terrorism. Still, the truth is that hundreds if not thousands of journalists, activists, heads of state, and other professionals and their families have been targeted by intelligence services around the MENA region using this technology. 1

This sober and detailed work examines the key threats to press freedom in the UK created by the Royal Charter on the press and the legacies of the Leveson Report. It offers arguments reasoned and principled against measures that present a grave and imminent threat to Britain's tradition of free speech. I wrote the foreword and I recommend the whole report.

Tim Luckhurst argues that the main question facing British policymakers is not how to prevent the hacking of telephones – nor even how to limit the political influence of an octogenarian media magnate who has already lost the confidence of several major shareholders. It is how to finance an ethical future

Sex scandals have become a recurring feature of political journalism worldwide. This article discusses the blurring line which divides public from private in contemporary media reporting and explores the changes sweeping Finnish political journalism. The intimate life of politicians has long been a taboo subject in Finnish journalism, but this has been slowly changing since the early 2000s. This article focuses on two cases including the various sex allegations made against Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen in 2005Á2009 and the text-messaging scandal involving the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilkka Kanerva in 2005 and 2008. Our argument is that scandals have the effect of softening the boundaries between different media and creating greater coherence in the media field.

Sex scandals have become a recurring feature of political journalism worldwide. This article discusses the blurring line which divides public from private in contemporary media reporting and explores the changes sweeping Finnish political journalism. The intimate life of politicians has long been a taboo subject in Finnish journalism, but this has been slowly changing since the early 2000s. This article focuses on two cases including the various sex allegations made against Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen in 2005Á2009 and the text-messaging scandal involving the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilkka Kanerva in 2005 and 2008. Our argument is that scandals have the effect of softening the boundaries between different media and creating greater coherence in the media field.