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Regulating the Press: The Calcutt Report and the establishment of the Press Complaints Commission
Edited by Dr Adrian Bingham. Published 2007, CCBH
ISBN: 1-905165-25
0978-1-905165-25-4
CD-ROM: £10 plus postage, Hard copy: £12 plus postage
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This witness seminar was held on 29 June 2005 in Senate House, University of London. It was chaired by Professor James Curran (Goldsmiths College, University of London), with a paper by Dr Adrian Bingham (Department of History, Sheffield University, previously Centre for Contemporary British History).
Regulating the Press: The Calcutt Report and the establishment
The participants were:
Sir Louis Blom-Cooper Chairman, Press Council, 1989-90.
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville Conservative MP of the City of London and Westminster South, 1977–97, Cities of London and Westminster, 1997–2001. Secretary of State for National Heritage, 1992–94.
Jacob Ecclestone Deputy General Secretary, National Union of Journalist, 1981–97; Member: Press Council, 1977–80.
Geoffrey Goodman Founding Editor, British Journalism Review, 1989–2002
Sir Simon Jenkins Editor of The Times 1990-92; member, Committee on Privacy and Related Matters (Calcutt Committee)
Kenneth Morgan Director of Press Council 1980-90; Director of Press Complaints Commission, 1991
Peter Preston Editor of The Guardian, 1975-94
Lord Soley of Hammersmith Labour MP for Hammersmith North, 1979–83; Hammersmith, 1983–97; Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, 1997–2005.
From the floor:
William Gore Assistant Director of the Press Complaints Commission
Professor Richard Shannon Author of A Press Free and Responsible (2001)
The published transcript also includes documents relating to the Calcutt Report released under the Freedom of Information Act, and an interview with Mark Bolland, who was assistant to Lord McGregor, the first Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, then Deputy Director of the PCC September 1991-March 1992 and Director from March 1992.
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