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25-402: Julian Arthur Charles Haviland (8 June 1930 – 11 August 2023) was a British print and broadcasting journalist whose career lasted over sixty years. He was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for over twenty years, and was the political editor of Independent Television News (1975–1981) and The Times newspaper (1981–1986). He was also the author of two books. Julian Arthur Charles Haviland

50-410: A Periodical Press Gallery for magazine and newsletter writers, and a Press Photographers' Gallery. By the 1990s, Internet reporters and bloggers began applying for press passes. After initial resistance, the press galleries adjusted their rules to admit those who earn their living from their journalism, and who are not underwritten by advocacy groups. Reporters who occupy the press galleries are known as

75-630: A committee, not imposed by government or parliament. Although it is a subsidiary of the press gallery, it has long operated independently. An independent review of government communications in 2003, chaired by Bob Phillis , then chief executive of the Guardian Media Group , found that the Lobby system was not working effectively. The report, presented to the Cabinet Office in January 2004, concluded that

100-499: A press room until 1902.) The press galleries in Congress are operated by superintendents, appointed by the House and Senate sergeants at arms, and by Standing Committees of Correspondents, elected by the journalists. The first Standing Committee of Correspondents was created in 1879 to eliminate lobbyists from the press galleries. With the approval of House and Senate leaders, reporters drafted

125-406: A set of requirements for accreditation. Press passes were issued only to those whose primary source of income was journalism, and who reported by telegraph to a daily newspaper. The rules eliminated lobbyists, but also women and minorities. Nineteenth-century women reporters were confined to social news coverage, which did not justify the cost of telegraphing. African American reporters were limited to

150-533: Is reported to have replied "We’re welcome to brief whoever we like, whenever we like". In response, the majority of the Lobby walked out of the event at Downing Street in protest. Responding to an urgent question in the Commons on the walkout the parliamentary secretary for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith , said that briefings to smaller groups of Lobby journalists are "entirely normal, standard and routine, and have been so over successive Governments". The Lobby walkout

175-826: The Surrey Advertiser and worked as a reporter. He then joined the Johannesburg Star in South Africa as a reporter, where he learned to speak Afrikaans , returning to the UK in 1959. He then joined The Daily Telegraph in London and was then a reporter for the London Evening Standard . In 1961, Haviland joined Independent Television News as a reporter and occasional newscaster. He became ITN's political correspondent in 1965, and in 1975 its political editor. He reported on

200-576: The House of Commons to 9 Downing Street , against the wishes of many Lobby journalists. In the same month, the Lobby chairman allowed for briefings to be reported live, after Guido Fawkes reporters live-tweeted them. On 3 February 2020 the Government refused to allow some members of the Lobby to receive part of a briefing. Government communications director Lee Cain , asked what grounds he had for selectively briefing to some political editors and not others,

225-469: The politics of the United Kingdom , or its predecessor or constituent states, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Press gallery The United States Senate established its first press gallery in 1841, and both the House of Representatives and Senate set aside galleries for reporters when they moved into their current chambers in 1857 and 1859. (The White House did not designate

250-623: The Lobby and Lobby journalists collectively characterise the political journalists in the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament . The term derives from the special access they receive to the Members' Lobby . Lobby journalism refers to the news coverage, largely unattributed, generated by reporters from the political proceedings in Parliament. In the 1870s a list was drawn up of parliamentary reporters who were permitted to mingle with MPs in

275-462: The Lobby organisation. Major organisations, include: Notable journalists include: Journalists who are members of the Lobby, along with other members of the press gallery or accredited for parliamentary broadcasting, are required to register other employment advantaged by their parliamentary pass. The interests are published in the Register of Journalists' Interests. This article related to

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300-577: The Members' Lobby. According to the parliamentary press gallery this had become necessary after the speaker Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington had stopped members of the public wandering into the Members’ Lobby. Only people, including reporters, on the list kept by the Serjeant at Arms would be given access. During the 20th century the nature of the Lobby evolved, from a secretive system whose existence

325-765: The banks of Loch Tummel in Strathtummel in the Scottish Highlands , where he wrote two books and occasionally contributed to national political debate. He attended a political reunion of ITN's past and present political editors in 2011, to bid farewell to a colleague of many years' standing, and the following year, the funeral of his former ITN colleague, David Walter . Haviland married Caroline Victoria Barbour, daughter of George Freeland Barbour , in September 1959; they had three sons. Julian Haviland died on 11 August 2023, at age 93. Lobby correspondent The terms

350-471: The black press, which were then all weekly papers. Not until the 1940s did women and minorities overcome these obstacles. In the twentieth century, the same rules denied press passes to radio reporters, unless they simultaneously reported for daily newspapers. In response to complaints from broadcasters, Congress in 1939 created a Radio Gallery in each house, later the Radio-TV galleries. Congress also established

375-402: The credibility of both government and the media are damaged by the impression that they are involved in a "closed, secretive and opaque insider process". According to evidence received by the review, editors and journalists disliked public information being used as "the currency in a system of favouritism, selective release and partisan spinning". Ministers and officials in turn complained about

400-553: The devaluation crisis facing Harold Wilson , the election of Edward Heath and the three-day week , and the subsequent return of Wilson to power. He was the first person to interview Margaret Thatcher on her victory in the Conservative Party leadership contest on 11 February 1975. He interviewed James Callaghan when he became prime minister a year later. Haviland contrasted his attitude to political reporting with that of ITN's then news editor, Don Horobin, thus: "(for him) it

425-427: The media offering a partial and distorted version of events, "often with little relationship to what was said at lobby briefings and relying on off-the-record sources or, as some have alleged, deliberate misrepresentation". The Phillis review recommended that all major government media briefings should be on the record, live on television and radio and with full transcripts available promptly online. This recommendation

450-427: The press corps. Now numbering in the thousands, they rely on similar press operations in all three branches of the government. Despite the government's efforts to accommodate the press corps, however, the relationship between the press and the politicians remains essentially adversarial, punctuated by politicians' complaints of bias and misrepresentation, and by reporters' protests against government attempts to manipulate

475-479: The state funding of political parties, as had been advocated by some members and suggested by others inside and outside Westminster. In 1981, Haviland joined The Times as political editor, reporting on the early problems facing Thatcher's first government. He retired from daily print journalism in 1986, the year of the Wapping dispute between the newspaper's proprietor and the print unions. He moved to Tomintianda, on

500-549: Was announced in July 2020 that the afternoon lobby briefing would be replaced with a televised press conference from October 2020. The membership represents large media organisations such as the BBC or Sky News , as well as smaller and online publications such as LabourList , Left Foot Forward , and Tribune . Guido Fawkes uniquely has 3 parliamentary lobby passes but their journalists are not individually or collectively members of

525-477: Was barely acknowledged, to a more or less formal briefing system, though still unattributable. During the government of John Major , cabinet secretary Lord Gus O'Donnell , agreed to allow lobby briefings to be attributed to "Downing Street sources". Lobby members can be briefed by other government and opposition spokespeople, but the Lobby rules insist that the identity of sources must not be revealed. The Lobby rules are developed and enforced by its members through

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550-553: Was born on 8 June 1930, in the village of Iver Heath in Iver in Buckinghamshire . He was the son of Major Leonard Proby Haviland of the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers and military secretary to the governor-general of New Zealand, and Helen Dorothea Fergusson, the daughter of General Sir Charles and Lady Alice Fergusson. Haviland was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge . After leaving university, Haviland joined

575-512: Was commended by the Society of Editors, which called for a reversal of the Government decision. During the COVID-19 pandemic , government ministers, civil servants and other public sector officials took part in daily televised press conferences. Two televised prime ministerial statements, by Boris Johnson , were also made: on 23 March 2020 and 10 May 2020. Following these televised press conferences, it

600-406: Was not acted on and many other recommendations were also "set aside or watered down". On 7 January 2019, television cameras were allowed in the Lobby for the first time ever, first shown on BBC News and then on Sky News a few hours after. However, the briefings themselves continued not to be televised. In January 2020 the Government moved its twice-daily briefing sessions for journalists from

625-514: Was the Daily Mail that set ITN's agenda. My view was that at ITN we must be at least as responsible and accurate as the BBC, without being so damned boring". He was also known on-screen for wearing a plain jersey below the jacket rather than the more formal attire of a waistcoat. Haviland was a member of the 1975 Houghton Committee, and co-wrote the minority report which persuaded Parliament not to introduce

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