Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law

undisclosed_email_address@ox.ac.uk (Phil Dines) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:37:32 +0000

Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law Regulation, Regulators, and the Crisis of Law and Government Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law Mark Stephens CBE, lawyer specializing in media law and regulation, representing phone hacking victims Lara Fielden, Visiting Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, formerly of BBC News and Ofcom Damian Tambini, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, LSE 18 May from 09:30 to 16:00 Haldane Room, Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD

Since Edmund Burke coined the expression the Fourth Estate, the media has been seen to play a crucial role in uncovering the truth and holding the powerful to account. Today, the influence of multinational media empires and the phone hacking scandal have seen the press themselves become the focus of questions about accountability and responsibility. Print journalism faces a crisis of credibility and competitive viability, but also, an opportunity for self-reflection and reform for the twenty-first century. This workshop will bring together media experts, lawyers, and policymakers in an effort to examine ongoing attempts to devise a new framework for media regulation in the light of the phone-hacking scandal and the competitive pressures of the evolving new media landscape.

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Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law