The Leveson report into press ethics was released on Thursday - in four volumes - weighing 10 kilos, and covering some 2,000 pages. The Huffington...

The pips are squeaking. As the deadline approaches for Lord Justice Leveson to make his recommendations on press regulation to the government, the public debate gets more strident. Rumours abound that he will recommend a role for the state. The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission urged him in a speech last night not to go down this path.

But, what about the internet, I hear you cry? Kate's topless photos have shot around the world. Doesn't this make an utter nonsense of press regulation, statutory or non-statutory? And isn't it unfair to put newspapers, already in a dodgy financial state, at a commercial disadvantage by not being able to publish content widely available online? There are no easy answers. But, unless you want to dispense with regulation altogether, to give newspapers an automatic right to reproduce anything they fancy from the internet surely cannot be justified.

Royal protection officers guarding Prince Harry cannot intrude into his social life, Britain's most senior policeman said today. Metropolitan Polic...

St James's Palace said it is still considering whether to make a formal complaint about The Sun's publication of nude photos of Prince Harry. The p...

There have been 3,600 complaints to the press watchdog about naked photographs of Prince Harry published in The Sun. The Press Complaints Commissio...

Around 850 complaints have been made to the press watchdog about naked photos of Prince Harry that were published in the Sun. The tabloid became th...

Newspaper owners would face fines of up to £1 million under a proposed new system of press self regulation, an inquiry into journalistic standards ha...

Christopher Jefferies, the man wrongly arrested by police in the hunt for the murderer of Joanna Yeates, has given a graphic account of how he was vil...

We need to set the bar a bit higher. A new ethical code would help to define the profession of journalism. This has become ever more important as media platforms converge and more and more new entrants arrive to challenge traditional news suppliers.

Rupert Murdoch has reassured staff of his "total commitment" to continue to own and publish The Sun after five members of staff were arrested today, i...

Digital publications should be consulted on the future shape of media regulation, the editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post UK has told the Leveson i...

The Press Complaints Commission felt it had been made a "scapegoat" over its handling of the phone-hacking scandal, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. ...

Introducing a new parliamentary bill to regulate newspapers would "open a Pandora's box" which could stifle freedom of speech, the chairman of the Pre...

Press Complaints Commission head Baroness Buscombe is to step down in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. In a statement relea...