Category: Investigative journalism

Guardian’s David Conn wins Paul Foot award for Michelle Mone investigation

Reporter and his team exposed the Tory peer’s use of a government ‘VIP lane’ to provide PPE during the Covid pandemicThe Guardian reporter David Conn has won the Paul Foot award for investigative journalism for...

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Media freedom in dire state in record number of countries, report finds

World Press Freedom Index report warns disinformation and AI pose mounting threats to journalismMedia freedom is in dire health in a record number of countries, according to the latest annual snapshot, which warns that...

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Press greets Home Office redraft of national security bill with scepticism

Industry sources say changes appear not to go far enough amid fears of ‘chilling effect’ on journalismA Home Office attempt to redraft controversial espionage legislation to tackle media concerns about its impact on...

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‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles

Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Amazon and AirbnbRevealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in electionsAt first...

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Labour asks why Treasury unit let oligarch under sanctions bring libel case

Key Putin ally who founded Wagner mercenaries tried to ‘subvert sanctions and silence journalist’, says Pat McFaddenThe Treasury is reviewing its procedures after the Russian founder of a mercenary army was given...

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Labour asks why Treasury unit let sanctioned oligarch bring UK libel case

Key Putin ally, who founded Wagner mercenaries, attempted to ‘subvert sanctions and silence journalist’The Treasury must explain how the Russian founder of a mercenary army was given permission to circumvent...

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UK government ‘let lawyers bypass sanctions’ to help Putin ally sue journalist

Documents seen by Open Democracy show UK firm got approval to engage with Wagner group founder Yevgeny PrigozhinBritish lawyers were given government dispensation to bypass sanctions in order to help Yevgeny Prigozhin, the...

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