Media Standards Trust

The Media Standards Trust is a British media think tank formed in 2006.[1] It carries out research on issues in the media sector, as well as advocating for press freedom as well as industry quality, transparency and accountability. It is a registered charity and is not aligned with any political party or media company.

Activities

Media Standards Trust hosts debates about standards in the news media,[2] conducts research into areas it considers of concern, hosts online projects, and formerly sponsored the Orwell Prize.

Projects

Journalisted.com

In 2007 the MST founded journalisted.com. The site has an archive of over four million news articles and a database of the work, biographical and contact information of several thousand journalists.[3] The site scrapes the news articles from several national and local publications, and sorts them according to byline. The database is utilized by the MST for conducting research into matters relating to news coverage; a weekly newsletter is published summarizing contemporary trends in news.[4]

Hacked Off
See also: News International phone hacking scandal

In light of the June 2011 allegations of the News of the World journalists phone hacking into the mobile phone voice mail of murder victim Milly Dowler, on 5 July 2011 in partnership with Professor Brian Cathcart and other concerned individuals, MST formed the "Hacked Off" campaign, registering the site hackinginquiry.org, and campaigning for a public inquiry into phone hacking. The campaign was directly supported by Norman Fowler, Professor Onora O’Neill, Francis Wheen, Tom Watson MP, Ben Goldacre, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Sir David Bell, D. D. Guttenplan, Professor Roy Greenslade, Professor Ian Hargreaves, John Lloyd, Isabel Hilton, Ian Jack, John Pilger, John Prescott, Richard Peppiatt, Andreas Whittam Smith, J. K. Rowling,[5] and others. Actor Hugh Grant supported the campaign and became a public spokesperson, appearing on the BBC television programmes Question Time and Newsnight.[6] The campaign was criticised by The Register, which described it as a "secretive pressure group ... of wealthy and powerful individuals and celebrities ... which has successfully campaigned for state control of the media".[7] In 2012, Hacked Off became independent of the Media Standards Trust.[8] Hacked Off produces a magazine, Free & Fearless.[9]

Funding

Foundations which have contributed to the Media Standards Trust include Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Nuffield Foundation, Eranda Foundation, and Scott Trust Limited.

Individuals who have contributed to the Trust include Christopher Stone and Robert Worcester.[10][11]

People

As of 2015 the director of the Media Standards Trust was Martin Moore. The Joint Executive Directors of Hacked Off are Evan Harris and Daisy Cooper. The Board of Trustees has included:

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gollark: They will probably just beam off your mindstate in an emergency.
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gollark: Who would want to unleash the horror of Space English upon the world?
gollark: The same language with different encodings is practical, and Eldraeic does that.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-02-16. Retrieved 2008-02-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Media Standards Trust » About". mediastandardstrust.org.
  3. "About - journalisted.com". journalisted.com. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  4. "journalisted.com". journalisted.com. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  5. "Rowling writes new Harry Potter story". BBC News. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  6. "Media Standards Trust » Blog Archive » Hacked Off: Campaign for a Public Inquiry into Phone Hacking". mediastandardstrust.org. 5 July 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  7. Page, Lewis (26 April 2013). "Announcement of 'churnalism detector' gets furiously churned". The Register. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  8. "Media Standards Trust website". Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  9. "Canary in the Pit" (JPEG image). Private Eye (1418). Pressdram Ltd. 26 May 2016. p. 7.
  10. "Media Standards Trust » Funding". mediastandardstrust.org. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  11. "Register Home Page". charity-commission.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  12. "Media Standards Trust » People". mediastandardstrust.org. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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