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zoom-in MAGAZINE

zoom-in, produced by the team at ABBAS, is a magazine for programme-makers working in television and film production.

Available online and in hard copy, zoom-in is distributed alongside Broadcast, the main trade magazine for the UK television industry.  With a print run of four thousand, zoom-in is an informative and entertaining mix of media law news, lifestyle features and exclusive interviews with leaders producers and talent.


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Each month ABBAS’s newsletter - zoom-in Brief - brings insightful reports directly to subscribers’ inboxes on the latest media law and regulatory news affecting the TV and publishing sectors. 

Invaluable for anyone working in TV, publishing, or journalism, or wishing to work in those sectors.

Melissa Fretwell Melissa Fretwell

8 April 2024

In this issue of zoom-in brief, a copyright claim and a separate defamation claim brought against Netflix over Tiger King and Inventing Anna are permitted to continue. In the UK, Andrew Bridgen MP has been ordered to pay Matt Hancock’s costs of a strike out hearing in their High Court defamation battle, whilst the Metropolitan Police has apologised to three journalists detained with protesters at a Black Lives Matter protest nearly 10 years ago.

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Melissa Fretwell Melissa Fretwell

22 March 2024

In this issue of zoom-in brief, a defamation claim brought against nonagenarian filmmaker Roman Polanski in France by actress Charlotte Lewis has begun, whilst two women have received a fine for accusing Brigitte Macron of being born male. In the UK, The Guardian and the Daily Mirror have apologised and agreed to make payments to journalist Dan Wootton in response to a privacy complaint; a preliminary hearing has taken place in the defamation action brought over the Steve Coogan film, The Lost King; whilst presenter Jeremy Vine is bringing a defamation claim against former-footballer, Joey Barton, over statements made on X. In the US meanwhile, Samantha Markle’s defamation claim against her sister the Duchess of Sussex is dismissed and more…

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