Press Regulation

SLAPPs and the press: why the Anti-SLAPP Bill is the wrong answer

21/09/2026

Coverage of Professor Arday was not legitimate: the letter The Times refused to publish

28/08/2026

Defensive, evasive & hypocritical: The press reaction to the death of Jason Arday

26/08/2026

When media abuse of academics becomes the norm in HE

19/08/26

Death of Jason Arday: Hacked Off comment

15/08/2026

The letter the Guardian didn't publish: Tulisa Contostavlos interview

12/08/2026

Notes from the Campaign Trail: August 2026 Update

01/08/2026

Hacked Off comment on outcome of ANL case

07/07/2026

Why the British Press Are Really Angry About the Government’s Planned Media ‘Prominence’ Law

30/06/26

“Objection AI”: A dystopian vision of the future of reputation management

30/06/26

The Consequences of Lobby Journalism

02/06/2026

Takeover at the Telegraph

24/03/2026

The Meningitis B Outbreak in Kent reveals an all too familiar pattern from the Daily Mail

17/03/2026

The State of British Media 2025: Reporting on Muslims and Islam

Monstering the Rocket Man: a play by Henry Naylor

12/02/2026

Mandelson & Epstein: Conspiracy of Silence

12/02/2026

71% of Brits back independent press regulation, new polling reveals

03/02/2026

Gerry & Kate McCann, Margaret Aspinall and Christine Flack among 30 press victims to call for PM meeting, citing “failure of political courage” on press reform

12/10/2025

The Telegraph’s attacks on the BBC are breathtakingly hypocritical

10/11/2025

Victims Demand Action on Press Reform at Labour Party Conference

07/10/2025

ITV's The Hack: Policy Briefing

24/09/2025

New revelations reignite the phone-hacking scandal - Nick Davies’s updated exposé publishes ahead of ITV’s David Tennant drama

09/06/2025

The Hack: ITV’s new drama could be a turning point in press accountability

26/08/2025

Advocates for Change - It Runs in the Family

05/08/25

Hacked Off condemns proposed appointment of David Dinsmore to senior government role

07/30/2025

David Dinsmore appointment "A Dangerous Misjudgement and Insult to the Public"

26/07/2025

Fabian Society essay collection proposes Ofcom role in press regulation

21/07/2025

New podcast, Everyone’s Still Hacked Off, debuts on Spotify

17/06/2025

Britain Deserves a Free Press – Not One Owned by the Few

22/05/2025

Byline Times becomes first national newspaper to join Impress

04/24/2025

Press illegality “no different” from street gangs and drug cartels, says Graham Johnson

04/16/2025

Don't miss a thing

10/03/2025

Petition: 'Ensure all the press is regulated by a Press Recognition Panel approved body'

10/03/25

Statutory reports on media use of arbitration for data protection claims “missing in action”

5/3/24

Consider it confirmed. The British Press has ‘Power Without Responsibility.’

20/2/25

Reputation 2025: Fascinating insights from lawyers, regulators & experts

18/02/2025

Britain's Press: Power Without Responsibility?

07/02/2025

Former Cabinet Minister George Eustice joins Hacked Off Board

02/06/2025

The ICO – again – is failing to hold the media to account

18/12/24

Public Rally Behind Support for New Press Inquiry

11/11/2024

The Fable of Sue Gray and how THE PRESS sealed her fate

10/10/2024

Hacked Off Prepare for a 'generational opportunity' in the fight for press accountability, with new website & brand refresh

08/10/2024

hacked off criticises press hypocrisy over donations

09/26/2024

Hacked Off campaign statement in response to Daily Mail articles

03/11/2011

Lord Judge’s misjudged references to press self-regulation

24/10/2011

Why a professional registry of journalists is a bad idea

28/09/2011

PM confirms that cross-party charter is only game in town

10/09/2013

British journalism's great ethical divide: should reporters pay for information?

13/08/2013

The two faces of the press on regulation of private investigators

05/08/2013

Guardian's decision to reject non-Leveson scheme welcome, press proprietors must think again

07/08/2013

Statement responding to release of information about companies who used private investigators

31/07/2013

Hacked Off respond to Maria Miller's comments on press regulation on Marr, BBC1

28/07/2013

Newspapers that hide the news from their readers

24/07/2013

The public tells the press bosses: do what Leveson proposed

23/07/2013

YouGov/MST poll finds public "utterly reject" press bosses' plan - Gerry McCann

24/07/2013

A letter to The Times

19/07/2013

The Sun and Mail on Sunday: not fit to regulate themselves as they demand

01/07/2013

What is PressBoF? And would you trust it?

25/06/2013

Charles Wheeler Lecture: Part 2, Media Plurality – Harriet Harman MP

15/06/2013

Is a "Leveson agenda" lurking behind the latest lobbying scandal?

03/06/2013

PressBoF Charter application: a wrecking manoeuvre

28/05/2013

The Daily Mail, Independent Regulation and Double Standards

02/06/2013

Newspaper Society “Local Editors Survey” – Unscientific and Misleading

13/05/2013

An arrogant ‘concession’

09/05/2013

Public distrusts press version of regulation scheme

07/05/2013

Free Speech Network poll backfires

01/05/2013

Nobody will trust another newspaper industry poodle

14/12/2012

Statement from Hacked Off on Maria Miller expenses story in the Daily Telegraph

12/12/2012

NO MORE LAST CHANCES

25/11/2012

SIX DEGREES OF REGULATION

27/11/2012

Hacked Off respond to newspaper industry funded 'Free Speech Network' poll

18/11/2012

The poll results the Sun didn't want you to know

15/11/2012

Independent regulator tops Press Gazette online poll

12/11/2012

Hacked Off responds to Lord Hunt's speech to the Society of Editors Conference

11/11/2012

Cross Party Momentum

09/11/2012

Who is talking about statutory CONTROL of the Press?

08/11/2012

Hacked Off respond to Tory MPs' letter on press regulation in the Guardian

09/11/2012

The Guardian hangs up its gloves

02/11/2012

Ten things the press would rather you didn't know

02/11/2012

Tall Tales and Desperate Arguments

31/10/2012

Senior academics reject press industry plans for self-regulation

01/11/2012

The FT and the Campaign For No Change

30/10/2012

77% of the public can't be wrong twice, can they?

23/10/2012

The question that stumps the Free Speech Network

26/10/2012

Hacked Off: A Winning Cause

25/10/2012

Hacked Off statement on claims against the Mirror

23/10/2012

Propaganda from the Sunday Times

21/10/2012

Hacked Off at the Liberal Democrat conference

26/09/2012

Kate’s boobs, Harry's bum and the Sun’s daft logic

14/09/2012

Prince Harry’s Photos – Five Lessons for the Media Regulation Debate

28/08/2012

Prince Harry, Privacy and Naked Photos: what part of “private” do the press not understand?

23/08/2012

Is compulsory regulation of the print media compatible with Article 10?

23/08/2012

Hacked Off Campaign Statement about Sky News Email Hacking

05/04/2012

Let’s get over this terror of the word ‘statutory’

27/03/2012

Hacked Off and Media Standards Trust host debate in the House of Commons

01/03/2012

PRESS RELEASE: Press abuse victims welcome first ever independent self-regulator; call on Government to deliver promised free speech protections

25/10/2016

The Press and Section 40: Roy Greenslade and the Nightmare Scenario

28/10/2016

Hacked Off comment on general issues engaged by Sunday Mirror's Keith Vaz story

06/09/2016

PRP defer decision over IMPRESS recognition - Hacked Off reaction

23/08/2016

Hacked Off respond to the NMA's attack on IMPRESS: "ill-tempered and poorly reasoned"

03/06/2016