In this talk – http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/war-levesons-ear-audio, John Mair, senior lecturer at Coventry University and author of ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal; Journalism on Trial’ gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series on the background surrounding the Leveson Enquiry. In his opinion this is the biggest crisis facing British journalism ever.
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