Organisation · GOV.UK transparency returns · sha1:86aeca900be3aa4627770d52c3df2d64fc86240a

John Neal, (Head of Newsgathering, BBC); Owen Meredith, (Chief Executive, News Media Association); Index on Censorship; Michelle Stanistreet, (General Secretary, National Union of Journalists); Rebecca Vincent, (Director of International Campaigns, Reporters Without Borders); Elena Cosentino (Director, International News Safety Institute); Tom Gibson, (Committee to Protect Journalists); Rozita Lofti, (Head of BBC Persian, BBC World Service); Maria Ordzhonikidze, (Director, Justice for Journalists); Ernest Sagaga, (Head of Human Rights and Safety, International Federation of Journalists); Twitter; National Council for the Training of Journalists; Rebecca Whittington, (Online Safety Editor, Reach Plc); Meta

Identity
organisation:govuk:sha1:86aeca900be3aa4627770d52c3df2d64fc86240a — the GOV.UK transparency returns key, used as-is. No identity here is invented.
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5 September 2026

Names in the records

Each spelling a register uses for this entity, and the method that tied it here. A name is never the identity; a similar name is never a match.

As publishedRegisterTied byConfidenceRows

What the records establish

  • John Neal, (Head of Newsgathering, BBC); Owen Meredith, (Chief Executive, News Media Association); Index on Censorship; Michelle Stanistreet, (General Secretary, National Union of Journalists); Rebecca Vincent, (Director of International Campaigns, Reporters Without Borders); Elena Cosentino (Director, International News Safety Institute); Tom Gibson, (Committee to Protect Journalists); Rozita Lofti, (Head of BBC Persian, BBC World Service); Maria Ordzhonikidze, (Director, Justice for Journalists); Ernest Sagaga, (Head of Human Rights and Safety, International Federation of Journalists); Twitter; National Council for the Training of Journalists; Rebecca Whittington, (Online Safety Editor, Reach Plc); Meta: 1 record of "recorded meeting with a minister" on 7 December 2022.
All 1 recorded relationships. Kind: FACT — every row is a register's own record; nothing on this page is computed.
RelationshipWithDateAmountDetailRecord
recorded meeting with a ministerJulia Lopez7 December 2022ministerial_meetings

What this does not establish

The records above establish that John Neal, (Head of Newsgathering, BBC); Owen Meredith, (Chief Executive, News Media Association); Index on Censorship; Michelle Stanistreet, (General Secretary, National Union of Journalists); Rebecca Vincent, (Director of International Campaigns, Reporters Without Borders); Elena Cosentino (Director, International News Safety Institute); Tom Gibson, (Committee to Protect Journalists); Rozita Lofti, (Head of BBC Persian, BBC World Service); Maria Ordzhonikidze, (Director, Justice for Journalists); Ernest Sagaga, (Head of Human Rights and Safety, International Federation of Journalists); Twitter; National Council for the Training of Journalists; Rebecca Whittington, (Online Safety Editor, Reach Plc); Meta and each entity named appear together in an official register, in the relationship that register records, on the date it records. They do not establish why any donation was made, why any contract was awarded, whether any one record was known to the people behind another, or that any record caused another. No causal inference is made on this page, and nothing here is a finding of any kind against anyone. A reported donation is a lawful, reported transaction; a contract award is a published notice; a seat is a seat.

Derived from: ministerial_meetings. Each row above names the table and key it came from and links the official record where one exists. How the graph is built is described at the evidence graph.