Professor of Journalism, Kingston University
Brian Cathcart is professor of journalism at Kingston University London and was a founder of the Hacked Off campaign. He served as specialist adviser to the commons media select committee in 2008-10. Irish by background, he was a journalist at Reuters, the Independent papers and the New Statesman, and has written books about the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Jill Dando, as well as on the history of nuclear science.
Where press regulation is concerned, we're already being fed 'post-truth' journalism
Jan 04, 2017 14:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The Times newspaper greeted the start of 2017 by warning: The freedom of the press is under direct and immediate threat. Its Murdoch stablemate, The Sun, went further by identifying the sinister zealots behind regulators...
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