Yorkshire Ripper case - Doreen Hill on chequebook journalism
- Title
- Yorkshire Ripper case - Doreen Hill on chequebook journalism
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1981
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- Duration
- 00:02:08
- Description
- Interview with Doreen Hill about reports that newspapers had offered large sums of money to the family of Peter Sutcliffe, who murdered her daughter, Jacqueline Hill. Mrs Hill says she wrote to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who said the press had the freedom to pay for stories. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Doreen Hill
- Keywords
- Newspapers; Crime; Margaret Thatcher; Press; Yorkshire; Women; Homicide; Murderers; Yorkshire Ripper; Peter Sutcliffe; Ethics; Journalists; Press ethics; Jacqueline Hill
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