- Nick Davies speaks at the Arnolfini (Photos by Simon Chapman)
- Nick Davies’s speech focussed on the problems facing the press
- This was the fourth annual Benn lecture.
- Nick Davies addressed an audience of journalists, students, and the public.
- There was time for questions from the audience.
- Nick drew on his book Flat Earth News.
- The current regulator, the Press Complaints Commission, is failing the public.
- His book documents the decline in journalistic standards.
- Christina Zaba, the chair of Bristol NUJ, chaired the lecture.
- Nick Davies called for a genuinely independent body which will take real action when newspapers publish untrue or damaging stories.
- Nick Davies said that, at its best the NUJ is very important for journalists.