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Bad News

Bad News

Written by: Kate Holley and Naomi Morauf
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 Journalism has rules and ethics to ensure a free press and to protect the society it serves. Each episode looks at a news story where rules were broken.

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Episodes
  • 4. Privacy (part two)

    4. Privacy (part two)
    Oct 7 2024
    In this episode we discuss the fall out of the BBC's coverage of the police search of Cliff Richard's home, how the government reacted and what happened in Richard's complaint that the police and the BBC violated his human right to privacy.

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    56 mins
  • 3. Privacy

    3. Privacy
    Sep 30 2024
    On the 14th August 2014 the BBC broadcasted an exclusive story of British singer Cliff Richard’s home being searched by police. In this episode we discuss how South Yorkshire Police complied with the demands of an ambitious journalist, and how privacy rights were forgotten in the process. We study court documents of the privacy trial and uncover some bizarre and shocking details of what happened in the lead up to the BBC's aerial coverage of Richard's home. Was all of this in the public interest? Should the public know if a member of the rich and famous are being investigated for a serious crime?

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    51 mins
  • 2. Defamation Act 2013

    2. Defamation Act 2013
    Sep 23 2024
    In this episode we discuss the defamation of Christopher Jefferies and the subsequent contempt of court charges against two tabloid newspapers - The Sun and The Daily Mirror - over the monstering of Jefferies after he was arrested on suspicion of murdering his tenant Joanna Yeates in 2010. Lawyers acting on behalf of Jefferies launched libel and privacy proceedings against newspapers: The Sun, Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Express, Scotsman, and Daily Record over their coverage of his arrest. Let’s examine whether these risked serious harm to his reputation and personal injury.

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    46 mins
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