Bang To Rights podcast

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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The crew meets in emergency session following the Supreme Court ruling against the Government's prorogation of Parliament. We look at how the best of the legal journalists have covered the case and helped make sense for the public of complex law, how live streams from court and Parliament have become "must see TV", and why politics podasts are one of the Brexit winners.

We're back, with Season Three of the podcast. The crew look at whether The Sun was right to publish its story this week about a tragedy in Ben Stokes' family, even though it happened before he was born. MMU journalism student Daniel Davies describes his first day as a court reporter covering a live, high-profile case. And we speak to Sally Reardon and Marcus Keppel-Palmer from University of the West of England on their research into dwindling coverage of magistrates courts across England and Wales.

You can read their report in full here: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1492517

They have also written about their research in Press Gazette, here:

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/hundreds-of-stories-going-untold-at-magistrates-courts-study-finds-reporting/

https://pressgazette.co.uk/local-newspapers-should-use-citizen-journalists-to-report-from-magistrates-courts/

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In this special edition of the podcast, Pete Murray speaks to Carole Watson from the University of Sunderland on the decision at the High Court to grant a lifelong anonymity order on the man found guilty in 2015 of terrorism offences. Known only as RXG, he is the youngest person ever convicted under the UK Terrorism Act.

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This week, the crew look at Brexit coverage, opinions on the media from the #PeoplesVote march. We examine the actual numbers on that march with MMU crowd science expert Prof Keith Still. We debate columnists vs journalists, the EU Copyright Directive, and whether the toxic Brexit genie will ever crawl back inside its bottle.

For links to the work of Keith Still and his students on crowd numbers, click on FullFact.org's report https://fullfact.org/europe/peoples-vote-march-count/

And for coverage of the demo and much more, do visit our news site, Northern Quota https://thenorthernquota.org/news/put-it-people-brexit-march-biggest-british-history

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This week: how MMU's Northern Quota covered the Utrecht tram attack; we also review the BBC Storyville documentary, "The Cleaners" on the outsourced contract workers who have to view graphic online images on behalf of the internet giants; how UK media responded to footage from the Christchurch gunman; and how UK journalists have covered climate change.

Read NQ's report on the Utrecht shootings here: https://thenorthernquota.org/news/utrecht-shootings-manhunt-underway-gunman-after-shooting%C2%A0-tram

And you can watch "The Internet's Dirtiest Secrets: The Cleaners" on the BBC iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0003f2f/storyville-the-internets-dirtiest-secrets-the-cleaners

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We hear from Bristol Central MP, Jo Stevens on how her constituency has been targeted by Facebook adverts apparently paid for by the pro-Brexit group, Britain's Future. Also in this episode: how a court reporter in Australia has successfully sued her employers for PTSD, and what other news organisations are doing to help journalists avoid psychological injury through stress at work.

For much more on this issue, you can listen to Episodes #12 and #13, and for more on the DCMS report into Facebook and political advertising, please check out Episode#18.

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This week, we look at the ruling by McFarlane LJ against lifting the lifelong injunction against publishing the new identities of the James Bulger killers. We examine Lord Paddick's proposal to ban news organisations from publishing the names of people arrested by police but not charged. Also, the issue of meaning in defamation cases. And did someone in Downing Street secretly meet up with the Cambidge Analytica boss, Alexander Nix.

On the defamation issue, you can read more here, on the Inforrm blog: https://inforrm.org/2019/02/14/defamation-practice-update-determination-of-meaning-before-defence-kirsten-sjovoll/#more-41581

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This week, we hear from in-house lawyer at The Guardian, Gillian Phillips about data, and the risks to journalism from new legislation on data protection. "Keep less" is Gill's advice to many of the reporters at The Guardian. We also hear from Amanda Coleman, head of comms at Greater Manchester Police on how they handle journalists' questions on high-profile cases and investigations.

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As UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright heads into talks with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the BtR team looks at the report from MPs' 18-month investigation into "fake news", Facebook and Google, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

We also discuss the "State of Hate 2019" report from the HOPE Not Hate anti-racism organisation. And there's also a look ahead to reporting this evening from our Northern Quota team on the Reclaim The Night demonstration in Manchester.

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