The Palace and The Press - Part 2 - Media law lecturer

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have cited their treatment by the press as one of the reasons for their move to Canada and withdrawal from their roles as full time working royals.To get a new perspective on the media coverage, and discuss how the royal family are covered more broadly, Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper (@anngripper) has invited two external experts to give their views.In this episode she talks to Carole Watson (LinkedIn profile), senior lecturer in media law at the University of Sunderland who spent 25 years working in journalism. Recorded after the Sandringham summit but before the Sussexes' independence deal was reached, they discuss legal action taken by the royal family in the past, where the legal line lies and how the media covers the royal family.Join the conversation about the episode on Instagram and Twitter @podsave - and subscribe to the podcast to follow the unfolding royal family news. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:05.0	Welcome back to POD Save the Queen!
0:09.0	Part 2 of our media special looking at the palace and the press. I am your host
0:15.2	Ann Gripper. If you haven't yet listened to episode one with ipso the UK
0:21.4	media UK press regulator then don't worry stay here listen to this one first
0:27.0	and then go back and listen to the ipso one. If you have listened to the
0:29.8	ipso one already then this one provides a slightly different perspective
0:34.3	slightly more on the journalist side if you like because I caught up with one of my
0:39.8	old bosses Carol Watson who is now a lecturer in journalism and
0:45.3	particularly in the area of law. So we caught up actually a week ago when she
0:50.6	was down in London so it was after the Sandringham summit but
0:53.6	before the details of the Megan and Harry deal had been announced. So I hope you
1:01.1	find our conversation interesting.
1:03.0	So welcome to the podcast today, a new friend of the show,
1:11.0	an old, well, old boss of mine and now a Facebook friend
1:15.2	where I very much enjoy seeing her new adventures Carol Watson welcome to the show
1:20.0	thank you for having me lovely to be back in the Daily Mirror office.
1:24.0	Yeah, after a little while.
1:26.0	So Carol was my boss when I was a very green trainee on features
1:30.0	longer ago than we should probably mention but not in the last decade it was
1:34.2	before that so well well ago but you have gone on to other interesting things
1:39.1	since and you now teach the next generation of journalists which is why I wanted to bring you in here
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