Tag: Media reporting

Last of the Independent The Independent, together with its Sunday sibling, has ceased print production and is henceforth only to be available through its website. This could simply be the way of modern media, given that many of us now read our news through smartphones and tablets – thus saving on the cover price of…

Master or servant: The Metropolitan Police report into the Plebgate affair has revealed that the police sometimes use the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) to obtain journalists phone records. This circumvents the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (Pace), which has a specific clause requiring a judge’s signature in order to protect journalist’s sources. One…