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LEVESON – Law lecture 29 Nov 2012 | 11:03 pm
Something pretty big happened today. Lord Leveson released his 2000 page report onto standards and ethics of press culture. The basic recommendations he laid out were that there should be an independ...
Untitled 29 Nov 2012 | 11:03 pm
Law test notes - a) Legal framework in the UK Civil v Criminal Supreme > Crown > Magistrate County court – Civil Magistrate – criminal _ Crown court – tries indictable offenses, listens to appe...
5 News notes: 27 Nov 2012 | 11:03 pm
Links were way too long. Order; Floods – 8 minutes long. Way too long – dragged on for ages. Good pictures but a bit dull after 5 minutes. Interviewed Cameron which was good. - Norovirus – same ...
Investigative journalism 25 Nov 2012 | 05:24 pm
Investigative reporting is really just any story initiated by the journalist, i.e. not on the news agenda. A sort of lesser Gonzo, if you will: http://georgeberridgedash.blog.com/?p=139 Here’s my la...
Media Law – Court Reporting and reporting crime 16 Nov 2012 | 05:56 pm
Sorry for the brief absence. A lot of things have happened but I’m back now so you can all stop panicking. Oh, crime and the court. My old friends, my nightmares. How I love and loathe you so. Repor...
Media Law – Libel and Defamation 11 Nov 2012 | 04:38 pm
Inadvertently, I ended up writing about libel and related law in my introduction post so I’ll just add the thoughts I was going to write here to this post: http://georgeberridgedash.blog.com/2012/10/1...
WINOL Year 3; Summaries – Weeks 1 – 10 5 Nov 2012 | 10:40 pm
Frankly, it’s far too much effort to put all the weeks’ summaries into separate posts so I’ll just update this one as and when. Week One – Swingers Club http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-svI8V_1o T...
Media Law – Codes of Conduct 4 Nov 2012 | 08:05 pm
Here’s a piece I did on the NUJ code of conduct last year - http://georgeberridgedash.blog.com/2011/09/20/nuj-code-of-conduct/ Journalism’s codes of conduct lie somewhere in between the grounds of Th...
Media Law – Year 3; Privacy and Confidentiality 28 Oct 2012 | 08:10 pm
Privacy and confidentiality. Privacy is tricky for journalists. It lies in the foggy land, somewhere between Articles 8 & 10 of the Human Rights Act. Article 8 gives people the right to privacy and ...
Working for Wannabe Hacks 20 Oct 2012 | 05:43 pm
For those that don’t know, I now write for the brilliant Wannabe Hacks. Here’s a link to all of my pieces so far: http://wannabehacks.co.uk/george/
