Media Standards Trust [SEP] inception
Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust was formed in 2006.
Activities.
Media Standards Trust hosts debates about standards in the news media, conducts research into areas it considers of concern, hosts online projects, and formerly sponsored the Orwell Prize.
Projects.
Projects Journalisted.com.
In 2007 the MST founded journalisted.com. The site has an archive of over four million news articles and a database of the work, biographical and contact information of several thousand journalists. The site scrapes the news articles from several national and
Purpose, and had set up the Media Standards Trust (a lobbying group which presented evidence to the Inquiry) together with Julia Middleton. Moreover, the Media Standards Trust set up and provided funding for the lobbying group Hacked Off, which also presented evidence to the Inquiry. Bell resigned from the Media Standards Trust when he was appointed a member of the Inquiry. On 16 November 2012 the "Daily Mail", reporting these links, claimed that "like some giant octopus, Common Purpose's tentacles appear to reach into every