We live in interesting times. Once media law covered the traditional media. Now it covers social media.But how will Brexit affect us? And what happens when a member of staff posts defamatory comments from their own account?
by David Banks
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We live in interesting times. Once media law covered the traditional media. Now it covers social media.But how will Brexit affect us? And what happens when a member of staff posts defamatory comments from their own account?
by David Banks
Read moreWe're running a social media and media law workshop. Why? Because when the door flies open and someone important demands to know what you are going to do about that newspaper's Facebook comment you know where you stand. And Brexit isn't making things easier.
by David Banks
Read moreMedia law. For years it felt largely like an ever constant. But along came social media and all of a sudden things felt dangerously different. Add some law changes and the landscape has tilted somewhat. One issue? Your staff's social media accounts. With media law consultant David Banks we're running workshops. This is a flavour of why.
by David Banks
Just so we're clear, the following are my views alone and do not reflect those of comms2point0.
That's fine then, anything I say on this platform they've given me is my responsibility alone and the good folks at comms2point0 should bear no responsibility for anything I write here.
Here goes. I don't like cake. Not only do I not like cake, I don't like people who like cake. They symbolise all that is wrong with our country, sitting there eating cake when they could be doing something much more useful.
Do you have a battered copy of McNae's Essential Law for Journalists on your desk? Many public relations people do. Thing is after a busy few weeks much of it is obsolete. In this post a media law expert runs comms people through some of the key headlines they need to know.
By David Banks
During the past week a significant shift happened in the lives of journalists in the UK.
The Defamation Bill finally passed, and when give the Royal Assent and fully implemented it will make a huge difference to anyone publishing here because of one key clause.