Inquest into a Campaign

Inquest into a Campaign is a critique of the international press regulation campaign fought in the name of transsexual school teacher Lucy Meadows. She took her own life on 19th March 2013 and became the centre of an international campaign in the week running up to her funeral. In part this was due to her death happening while the British parliament was debating the Leveson Report into press behaviour that was inspired by the phone hacking scandal. A hasty connection was made between Meadows' death and her press harassment in December 2012 and a campaign was launched without waiting for an inquest or even time for the family to grieve. This book explores the mistakes made by this press regulation campaign and explores the problems inherent in internet-based campaigning.

To assist readers the book includes a detailed time-line of events and resource pages on the events, organisations, and people that lie behind the campaign. It is the nature of non-fiction books that some readers will only want to look at one section and to assist that the relevant portions of the time-line and resources will be appended to each chapter.