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The Media Show: Lord Black's recommendation for press self-regulation

21/11/2012

Lord Black's recommendation for press self-regulation

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, Lord Black's recommendation for press self-regulation

Lord Black explains his proposals for a self-regulated press. Presented by Steve Hewlett.

Ahead of the publication of the Leveson Inquiry, Lord Black, executive director of Telegraph Media Group explains why he believes self-regulation of the press is the way forward.

As we prepare for the publication of the Leveson Inquiry into Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press Lord Black the Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group talks to Steve Hewlett about why he thinks his plan for self regulation of the press is the best way forward.  But what do victim representatives and those connected to the tabloids think of it? 
Ann McElvoy, public policy editor at the Economist and Evening Standard columnist, newspaper veteran Professor Roy 
Greenslade and media lawyer Mark Thomson, media lawyer who represented Sienna Miller in her privacy case. 

Presenter Steve Hewlett
Producer Beverley Purcell.

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