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Index raises concerns over UK Freedom of Information We join media freedom organisations, editors and broadcasters in calling for an urgent review of right-to-know legislation 09 Feb 2021 The Right Honourable Julian Knight MP, Chair, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee CC The Right Honourable Michael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office The Right Honourable Chloe Smith, Minister for the Cabinet Office Dunja Mijatovic, Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of freedom of op...

The editors of the Guardian, Financial Times, Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mirror have joined together in a rare show of unity urging the Government to look at reform to protect Freedom of Information  (FoI)  rights. A dozen current and former Fleet Street editors have joined a call for a review into the Government’s use of FoI, raising “serious concerns” their policies are contributing to a culture of declining press freedom in the UK. They have been joined by staunch critics of the newspaper industry such as Hacked Off founder Brian Cathcart and founder of rival pr...

expert reaction to preprint reanalysing study of real-world Pfizer vaccination outcomes after one dose from Israel A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, estimates the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after one dose by reanalysing a study of ‘real-world’ vaccination outcomes from Israel.   Dr Peter English, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Former Editor of Vaccines in Practice Magazine, Immediate past Chair of the BMA Public Health Medicine Committee, said: “This preprint demonstrates an important aspect of good science: ...

(Airs 01/24/21 @ 6 p.m. & 01/25/21 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock,