Bang To Rights teams up with The Media Law Podcast, to talk election law and ethics, Hong Kong, and using podcasts to reach students, lawyers - and even judges.

For this special joint episode, producer-presenter Pete Murray is joined from City University's Law School by Tom Bennett, and from the MMU journalism newsroom by Ellie Shember-Critchley.

You can hear more from the Media Law Podcast on Soundcloud, here:

https://soundcloud.com/user-568422299

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The crew is joined by Lexi Kirkonnell-Kawana from IMPRESS to look at the press regulator's new guidance on using opinion poll data correctly. Pitfalls and good practice, coming bang on time for the blizzard of pre-election polling data.

You can read more on the guidance here:

https://impress.press/regulation/consultations.html

We also debate the ITV Leaders Debate - was it fair to exclude Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon?

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We're in question time mode, with an audience of ManMetUni students. Questions on social media and the December 12 election, Russian influence, media coverage, class and Brexit, parties and Brexit, the Brexit Party and Brexit... and also our preparations for Election Night coverage on the Northern Quota https://thenorthernquota.org/

With us this week, Jonathan Rodwell, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at MMU, Liz Hannaford and Dave Porter, Natalie Carragher from MMU's aAh! magazine https://aah-magazine.co.uk/

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Our special guest this week is the journalist Louise Tickle, who's been a leading figure in the campaign to give journalists better access to the family courts, a vital but much misunderstood area of the law. That campaign has led to the publication of by the President of the Family Division of the first ever guidance on reporters' access to the courts.

Jez looks at the postumous appeal which began this week in the Lady in the Lake case, which he first covered in the mid 1990s; and Ellie takes us through the latest challenge to (un)equal pay in the BBC by news presenter Samira Ahmed.

The crew also look ahead to counting airtime for party spokespeople during the election campain.

You can read more of Louise Tickle's work here:

http://louisetickle.co.uk/

And an account on the Transparency Project about the new Family Courts guidance here:

http://www.transparencyproject.org.uk/presidents-guidance-as-to-reporting-on-family-courts/

The Guardian's Readers Editor Paul Chadwick on election-time broadcasting rules:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/03/election-broadcasting-rules-balance-social-media-campaigning

And the full episode of the Today in Focus podcast on Samira Ahmed - and David Attenborough - is here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/audio/2019/nov/04/david-attenborough-the-making-of-a-british-icon

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We are joined this week by MMU journalism's Liz Hannaford to look at the latest Ofcom report into the BBC - and whether the Corporation risks becoming irrelevant to young people. We also look at issues around students registering to vote in the 12 December election, and forthcoming coverage of the campaign on thenorthernquota.org.

We also speak to Lucy Chesters of Ethos magazine, which covers what it calls innovative and progressive ways of doing business.

You can read more about Ethos magazine on their website:

https://ethos-magazine.com/

The Ofcom report on the "lost generation" and the BBC is here:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/bbc-risking-lost-generation

There is also a separate examination of BBC radio and podcasts, and the BBC Sounds app in Ofcom's Media Nations 2019 report here:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/tv-radio-and-on-demand/media-nations-2019

And you can read a full account here of the Leicester Mercury's attempt to publish the name of a teenager described as "a danger to the public" who pleaded to a series of savage assaults on a 19 year-old woman:

https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2019/news/judge-rejects-dailys-bid-to-name-danger-to-public-who-thought-he-had-killed-date/

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The crew tackles arts spending for the North West after Brexit; who are the anonymous sources in Downing Street? how are Hong Kong journalists dealing with attacks by the police and by suspicious protesters?

Read our students' research into post-Brexit spending here:

https://thenorthernquota.org/politics/final-year-students-examine-how-brexit-will-affect-arts-and-culture-manchester

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MMU journalism students assess the possible impact of a "No Deal" Brexit on the arts and culture sector in Manchester and the North West of England - and the picture's not rosy.

With Ellie Richards-Coldicott, Pruthvi Khilosia, Natalie Carragher and Vince Hunt.

You can read more details on https://thenorthernquota.org/

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The crew looks at the BBC radio investigation of The Times' highly controversial series of reports on the "Muslim foster care row" in Tower Hamlets, IPSO stands its ground over independence from the proprietors, coverage of racist chants at the England-Bulgaria match, and how the Supreme Court's Lady Hale has become the star of a children's book.

You can listen to the whole of BBC Radio 4's The Corrections programme here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07qkd4p

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A quickfire round this week, as we look at Coleen Rooney's investigation into her Instagram leaks, will Prince Harry go into the witness box on phone hacking? and how the Sunday Times came to name Yousef Makki's killer Josh Molnar before his 18th birthday.

You can hear the episode where we visit the MMU Law School's court room here: https://soundcloud.com/mmunorthernquota/bang-to-rights-5-mmu-law-school-visit

And you can contact us on Twitter @RightsBang.

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The crew meets in the MMU newsroom to unpick the legal case behind the Duke and Duchess of Sussex' action against the Mail on Sunday. We explore the impact on the BBC's view of its own diversity and impartiality amid the Naga Munchetty row, and we speak to veteran political commentator Matthew D'Ancona of Tortoise News about safe campuses, and - inevitably - Brexit.

You can read the report from the Reuters Institute into public service media here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/public-service-media-are-struggling-reach-younger-less-educated-audiences-and-risk

The Panorama programme on Jamal Khashoggi's murder is here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0008zf7/panorama-the-khashoggi-murder-tapes

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