Privacy injunction for Kate Winslet family

Today, the Guardian wrote this piece about a privacy injunction made by Kate Winslet and her husband, after The Sun were planning to publish pictures of Edward RocknRoll (her husband) partly naked, but Mr Justice Briggs made the injunction. The reasoning for preventing them being published was to protect the couple's children from being teased at school. The Sun had informed them of the intention to publish the photo's(but didn't reveal the source). he full judgement can be seen here. In it he refers to Articles 8 and 10. Looking...

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Covering Elections

Covering elections is an example of journalists carrying out a public duty, or public service. Reporting elections help inform people about information on the parties running, their manifestos and other information. During an election, while these are important for a journalist at any time, it is particularly important to have fairness, impartiality and accuracy, particularly for broadcasts. Broadcasters have special rules regarding elections and political bias, whilst newspapers can be less balanced. 'Keep an eye on the clock' - this...

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