Robert Murat

Madeleine McCann: Robert Murat accepts libel damages from BSkyB

Robert Murat has accepted substantial undisclosed libel damages from BSkyB over an allegation that there were strong grounds for believing that he was guilty of abducting Madeleine McCann. By Daily Telegraph reporter Mr Murat...

Peter Wilby: What it means for the press

Last week may have seemed just another in the long decline of print.In America, Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher (and owner of the British Newsquest), proposed to lay off 10% of its workforce; Time Inc proposed to cut...

Madeleine McCann: Without A Trace Newspapers Fight For Maddie

MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann FIREFOX NEWS: “Review — Without a Trace : Rise And Fall” But no sooner have the team started looking for her than a...

Martin Moore: A sense of perspective, please!

A bomb goes off in Kabul in the midst of an increasingly bloody conflict in Afghanistan. The Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross affair illuminates much of what is wrong with the news media in Britain – though not in the way you might...

Spinelessness beyond belief.

Yesterday I wrote that this mind-blowing farce was beyond our finest satirists. The young woman at the heart of this, the one so deeply offended and betrayed by Russell Brand's bringing up of the fact that he had a sexual...