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Hi everyone, Eliz Mizon here with the Media Reform Coalition blog.

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For now, here’s your media news digest:

Investigate the Daily Mail hacking allegations

This year, the Daily Mail became the seventh newspaper to face phone hacking claims – and now it is reported that ex-editor Paul Dacre may be soon given a seat in the House of Lords.

HackedOff are calling on the government to re-open Leveson Part Two to investigate the Daily Mail and other allegations of corruption in the press, the police, and among politicians, and suspend any plans to appoint Paul Dacre to the House of Lords, until the current claims against the Mail and Leveson Part Two conclude.

You can sign the petition here.

This Week’s Media News

• In the UK, public trust in journalism has doubled since 2000, and is at its highest since the annual Ipsos Veracity survey began in 1983. The survey also shows that journalists remain among the least trusted professionals in the country, however. (Press Gazette)
• Qatar has launched a review of its investments in London after Transport for London banned Qatari tourism advertisements in response to human rights concerns. (Reuters)
• The government has refused to pass a proposed change in the law to stop SLAPPs, lawsuits that allow the super-rich to exploit the law to intimidate and silence investigative journalists who wish to publish information about them. (The Guardian)
• A survey by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has found that 61% newsroom chiefs have embraced a shift to flexible and hybrid working, and around 20% were eager for staff to be back in the office full time. (RISJ)
• Australian Sky News presenter and Courier-Mail columnist Peter Gleeson has left News Corp after revelations of plagiarism. Digging by Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission showed that almost half of one of his columns was unattributed reporting from a regional ABC journalist, and 62% of an article was copy lifted from a parliament factsheet. (The Guardian)
• An independent review has found that police acted with “unlawful interference” when they arrested four journalists covering a Just Stop Oil protest earlier this month. It’s been recommended that the officers in question complete training on interacting with the media. (Press Gazette)
• Reporters Without Borders is suing a French satellite operator who have continued to broadcast Russian TV channels. (Bloomberg)
• The watchdog Media Matters for America has published data showing that since the US midterms ended, Fox News has decreased its coverage of violent crime by 50%. (The Guardian)
• David Walliams’ future as a judge on Britain’s Got Talent is “up in the air” according to a show spokesman. Audio of disrespectful comments he made about contestants during a break in filming in 2020 were leaked a couple of weeks ago, followed by commentary across social media about other behaviour. Clips have surfaced of a stage show in which Walliams, in character, would invite teenage boys up from the audience and pull their clothes off. (BBC)

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