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Reuters editor-at-large Sir Harold Evans hosted a Thomson Reuters event, “The Press We Deserve” in London on Tuesday September 20th on the future of the press and investigative journalism. Lawyers, academics and British editors, including Lionel Barber of the Financial Times and Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, appealed to the government not to crush Britain’s cherished free speech with draconian laws.

The event which attracted over 300 attendees was part of the Thomson Reuters event series, ‘A Conversation with Sir Harold Evans.’ Sir Harold said the British press was in its greatest danger since two journalists were jailed for not revealing their sources in 1963.

“The expose (about phone hacking) came from the press, yet the press face very big restrictions,” he said.

Britons’ patience with their misbehaving press, tested by a string of scandals where tabloid newspapers published wildly inaccurate stories or splashed sordid details of private lives on front pages, snapped this summer when the top-selling News of the World admitted that it had illegally hacked the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler while hunting stories.

Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of the News of the World, closed down the newspaper, apologized and his company offered a 3 million pound ($4.5 million) damages payout in that one case. But other victims of tabloid phone-hacking want tougher laws and Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered a public inquiry into press ethics.

“We understand that we have to stand together, we have to clean our house or else we face statutory regulation which nobody wants,” Financial Times Editor Lionel Barber told the Thomson Reuters debate.

‘The most important thing is that whatever organization follows is not controlled by the state,’ said James Harding, editor of The Times, which is owned by Murdoch.

Read the full story on Reuters.com