The British Media After Leveson

Posted: 7/31/2012  |  By: Hazel Sheffield | Columbia Journalism Review

If public outcry against alleged phone hacking sparked the Leveson Inquiry, the government-led investigation into ethics in the British press, citizen interest waned over the eight months of evidence gathering. By Tuesday, when that process closed, the conversation had shifted to become dominated by journalists and editors speaking out in defense of freedom of the press