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Most Recent Debate: Journalists to blame, not PRs

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Debate panellists: Nick Davies, Roy Greenslade, Lord Bell, Phil Hall

Journalists to blame, not PRs

When journalists and PR figures start questioning one another’s integrity you know things are going to get fiery. And this week's debate - hosted join...

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The growth of PR is threatening the integrity of the press

The Media Standards Trust and the University of Westminster will be hosting a debate on the relationship between PR and journalism.

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Website Relaunch

On Friday 18th January – we will be re-launching the Media Standards Trust website

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2007: how was the news for you?

Tony Blair lamented the media’s obsession with impact. Jeremy Paxman raged against the ‘‘ceaseless tide of pre-digested stuff’ that counts as news. Fi...

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Is the media having a "seriously adverse" impact on public life?

Tony Blair called the media distracting, unbalanced, demoralising, even overwhelming. Are we, as the ex-PM claimed, “all being dragged down by the way...

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Does the media’s judgment matter?

Sir Ian Blair and Heather Mills have been judged repeatedly by the media in the last week. Should they take any notice of what the media says? Is it p...

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How can the BBC recover its composure?

Reeling from loss of Peter Fincham (the BBC One Controller), unable to decide how to cut £2bn out of the BBC’s budget, constantly apologising for fixe...

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What else would restore trust in news?

Days after Jeremy Paxman raged against the ‘ceaseless tide of pre-digested stuff’ that counts as news in his Edinburgh MacTaggart Lecture, Five News r...

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Queengate: Outrage or storm in a royal teacup?

Few could have guessed that a trailer about a BBC documentary could cause such a furore. Was this an understandable reaction to a serious breach of tr...

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What difference do media owners make?

As Rupert Murdoch prepares to take over Dow Jones (and with it the Wall Street Journal), and a Lords Select Committee is established to examine the im...

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What can be done to repair the damage between the media and public life?

Tony Blair has called for a 'proper and considered debate' about how to deal with the increasingly unhealthy relationship between the media and public...

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Can the government control what its workers say to the media?

As the furore over British sailors selling their stories to the media continues, we ask whether it is still possible for the government or the militar...

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