NUJ speaks out against Met Police ‘heavy-handedness’ at Greek Embassy Protests
Further to our blog post this morning, showing police interfering with photojournalist Marc Valleé while he was attempting to photograph protests at the Greek Embassy on Monday, the National Union of...
View ArticleBBC Radio 4: The Jean Charles de Menezes IPCC leak
BBC Radio 4′s Fergal Keane talks to Lana Vandenberghe, the office worker who leaked documents concerning the Jean Charles de Menezes case. ‘As files passed across secretarial worker Lana Vandenberghe’s...
View ArticleBJP: Photographers sue Met Police for treatment at Greek embassy protests
“Two photographers have filed a legal claim against the Metropolitan Police after they were unlawfully prevented from reporting the protests outside the Greek embassy last year,” the British Journal of...
View ArticleJournalism Daily: Candy Box billboards; Chicago Tribune’s new innovators;...
Journalism.co.uk is trialling a new service via the Editors’ Blog: a daily round-up of all the content published on the Journalism.co.uk site. We hope you’ll find it useful as a quick digest of what’s...
View ArticlePolice remove teenage photographer from parade, citing terrorism act
Jules Mattsson, a 15-year-old photographer, challenged police officers attempting to restrict his photographing of an Armed Forced Parade in Romford on Saturday. As the recording posted to YouTube...
View ArticlePeston: News of the World emails allegedly show police payment requests
The BBC’s business editor Robert Peston claims to have learned from a source that News of the World emails uncovered by News International in 2007 appeared to show money requests from a reporter for...
View ArticleMet commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson’s resignation statement
Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned yesterday in the wake of new arrests and allegations in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal and payments to police. Here is his...
View ArticleJohn Yates resignation statement
Metropolitan police assistant commissioner John Yates resigned yesterday (18 July), after being told he would be suspended. Yates becomes the second casualty in the Metropolitan police in the wake of...
View ArticleGuardian: Number of possible phone hacking victims close to 5,800, say police
The number of possible phone hacking victims is now close to 5,800, the Met police have confirmed. This is 2,000 more than previously stated by the force. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: It is not...
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Met police representatives and crime reporters before Leveson inquiry this week
Copyright: Sean Dempsey/PA The Leveson inquiry moves into week three of module two today, starting with evidence from Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick of the Metropolitan Police and Sir Dennis...
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