The newspaper industry today firmly rejected the government's plans for the future of press regulation and published its own proposal for a Royal Char...

The royal charter system for the future regulation of the press agreed by David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband is probably "illegal under Europea...

There is, in fact, a very easy way to ensure that journalists don't break the law: get the police to do the job they're paid to do, rather than taking back-handers, sometimes several thousands of pounds, from reporters looking for a good story. It really is as simple as that.

Michael Gove has indicated he is unhappy with the proposals to regulate the press and said he only voted in favour of the plan as he felt he had to as...

A Labour MP has questioned why some "parasitical" journalists are allowed into parliament, a day after party leaders struck a deal on the future regul...

David Cameron told a meeting of Conservative MPs in Westminster on Monday that he had "called the bluff" of Ed Miliband during negotiations over the f...

Downing Street has insisted the agreement reached on Leveson is "not in any way" a statutory underpinning of press regulation - but was unable to conf...

This is the 21st Century; witch hunting the whistleblower should be an outdated pastime. The Obama administration should develop the insight that the justified concerns raised by a whistleblower have to be investigated and those allegedly responsible for war crimes bought to justice.

The Daily Telegraph has taken the unusual step of publishing details of a conversation between one of its reporters and a ministerial adviser in an at...

Hugh Grant has said the public are "aghast" at David Cameron's decision to oppose the statuary underpinning of a new system of press regulation. I...

Lord Justice Leveson has said new laws may be needed to prevent "mob rule" on the internet, as newspaper editors in Britain try to head off the statut...

The press have to set up the new system and why it is the press and no one else that must develop an independent regulatory regime that will adhere to the Leveson Principles. It isn't for the Prime Minister, the Cabinet or even Parliament to tell them how to do it.

David Cameron has told MPs he has "serious misgivings" about Lord Justice Leveson's recommendation for independent self regulation of the press underp...

Nick Clegg will make a separate statement to the House of Commons today on the Leveson report after David Cameron, exposing a rift within the coalitio...

The British public overwhelmingly want to see state-backed regulation of the press. Also, the public do not want to see state-backed regulation of the...

Boris Johnson, who is almost beyond satire, has warned state regulation of the press could prevent journalists doing the important job of making fun o...

David Cameron is under pressure from his own MPs to reject statutory regulation of the press, on the eve of the publication of the Leveson report. ...

David Cameron is facing fresh demands to reject statutory regulation of newspapers as he prepares to take delivery of the Leveson report. More than...

Harriet Harman is urging ministers to work together with Labour to reform the regulation of the press. The Labour deputy leader said Lord Justice L...

One month ago two foreign journalists were abducted in Syria and are still reported missing. Correspondent Bashar Fahmi, a Jordanian national of Palestinian origin, and Turkish cameraman Cuneyt Unal were working for the US government funded broadcaster Al-Hurra when they disappeared in the northwestern city of Aleppo on 20 August.