Katie Hopkins has won an IPSO complaint against the Mirror after it wrongly claimed she had been detained in South Africa over drug use. She was in fact being held for "spreading racial hatred". Full story to follow.
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- Daily Mirror OK to describe Matt Hancock as "a failed health secretary and cheating husband who broke the lockdown rules he wrote, doubled down on the lies he told, helped enrich his mates via the infamous VIP PPE lane..." - IPSO ruling
- TalkTV has issued an apology and paid “substantial damages” to a migrants’ rights charity over defamatory claims made on Mike Graham's show that the organisation were “human traffickers”
- NEW: Telegraph to suspend cartoonist Bob Moran @bobscartoons over Twitter posts targeting NHS doctor @doctor_oxford pressgazette.co.uk/bob-moran-tele…
- Labour MP Chris Bryant has said news coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 'knowingly monetises hatred' of the couple and that columnists write 'drivel' about them 'not because the writer genuinely cares about it, but because it makes money'
- Toby Young was writer behind misleading claims in Telegraph that having a cold could offer protection against coronavirus and London was approaching herd immunity in July. IPSO has ruled against the title here: ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-re…
Telegraph comment piece breached Editors' Code with "significantly misleading" statement that "misrepresented the nature of immunity" by implying people previously exposed to some colds might be automatically immune to symptoms and to spreading Covid-19 bit.ly/3ijutXB - BREAKING: @carolecadwalla has won her libel battle with @Arron_banks. More to follow pressgazette.co.uk/carole-cadwall…
- Prince Harry has not only breached the privacy of his family members but also significantly undermined his own future right to privacy
- BREAKING: Ofcom has sanctioned London Live, saying its recent 80-minute interview with David Icke broke broadcasting rules as his comments on coronavirus "risked causing significant harm to viewers" and went "largely unchallenged" by the interviewer
- Around 70 serving and former Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday journalists have been named in Prince Harry's unlawful newsgathering claim against the titles after the lifting of reporting restrictions yesterday
- Dan Wootton is seeking damages, an apology and the retraction of articles from Byline Times. Press Gazette understands that Wootton’s legal team is also writing to Carol Vorderman and Emily Maitlis over statements made by them on Twitter
- Emily Maitlis: “I think one of the scariest things for me during the pandemic, if I’m honest, is when we had senior politicians of all stripes saying, ‘Now is not the time to ask this.’ Or, ‘Now is not the time to raise questions about this.’" pressgazette.co.uk/emily-maitlis-…
- Chairman of @GBNEWS @afneil reveals plans for channel to take war on 'woke' establishment media global pressgazette.co.uk/andrew-neil-wo…
- GB News is bouncing back with 200 staff now on the team and social media numbers which are beating its rivals
