Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Notice System - Revision history

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2019 Membership

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People

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D Notices and official publicity

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		+	== 2019 Membership ==
		+	{\| class="wikitable"
		+	! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
		+	\|-
		+	\| Chair \|\| [[Dominic Wilson]] \|\| Director General Security Policy, [[Ministry of Defence]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Vice-Chair \|\| [[John Battle]] \|\| Head of Compliance, [[ITN]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Vice-Chair \|\| [[Ian Murray]] \|\| Executive Director, [[Society of Editors]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director National Security Unit \|\| [[Jonathan Emmett]] \|\| [[Home Office]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director for National Security \|\| [[Simon Shercliff]] \|\| [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Deputy National Security Adviser \|\| [[Madeleine Alessandri]] \|\| [[Cabinet Office]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director National Security \|\| [[Paul Wyatt]] \|\| [[Ministry of Defence]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Editorial Director \|\| [[Laura Adams]] \|\| [[Archant]] ([[NMA]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Head of News \|\| [[Jess Brammar]] \|\| [[Huffington Post]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Editor \|\| [[Peter Clifton]] \|\| [[Press Association]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Group Editor \|\| [[Joe Fay]] \|\| [[The Register]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Assistant Editor \|\| [[Charles Garside]] \|\| [[Daily Mail]] ([[NMA]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director \|\| [[James Green]] \|\| [[IHS Jane's]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Digital Publishing Director \|\| [[David Higgerson]] \|\| [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] ([[NMA]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport \|\| [[Michael Jermey]] \|\| [[ITV]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards \|\| [[David Jordan]] \|\| [[BBC]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Director \|\| [[John McLellan]] \|\| [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] ([[SNS]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Managing Director \|\| [[Owen Meredith]] \|\| [[Professional Publishers Association]] ([[PPA]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Chief Executive Officer \|\| [[Charles Redmayne]] \|\| [[Harper Collins UK]] ([[BPA]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Managing Editor \|\| [[Craig Tregurtha]] \|\| [[The Times]] and [[The Sunday Times]] ([[NMA]])
		+	\|-
		+	\| Deputy Head of News Gathering \|\| [[Sarah Whitehead]] \|\| [[Sky News]]
		+	\|-
		+	\| Deputy Editor \|\| [[Robert Winnett]] \|\| [[The Daily Telegraph]] ([[NMA]])
		+	\|}
		+
		+	*Secretary: [[Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds OBE]]
		+
		+	*First Deputy Secretary: [[Air Commodore David Adams]]
		+
		+	*Second Deputy Secretary: [[Group Captain John Alexander]]
		+
		+	*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190716051726/https://www.dsma.uk/the-committee/</ref>

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 *PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]
-== Notes ==
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 Records of a Meeting held on 19 June 2007 <ref>'Records of the past DPBAC meetings', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/records.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> state that "a total of 161 enquiries had been received." On UK Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan "13 requests for DA Notice advice had been received.  Most of these had been concerned with equipment." There had been a marked increase in enquiries for advice on publishing aerial and satellite photography during the last 7 months.  Some of the requests are rather obscure: "The Secretary reported that he had received several enquiries related to the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. A film called ‘The Bank Job’, due for release next year, was likely to be followed by one or more documentaries on the robbery, a central theme of which was expected to be a ‘cover-up’ through the alleged issuing of a ‘D-Notice’."  The Committee are seeking to promote a better understanding of the DA Notice System: "The main target audiences were the armed forces headquarters, official committees, media management and media schools of journalism.  Briefings had been given to a group of London-based International Correspondents, the Media Emergency Forum, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, the BBC New [sic] Editorial Board and University College Falmouth."
 ==People==
 ===Committee, May 2018===
 *Chair [[Peter Watkins]] Director General Strategy and International [[Ministry of Defence]]

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 ===D Notices and official publicity===
 *[[D-Notice No. 10]]
-*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004.
+*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
 *[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
 *[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]

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 *David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/war-and-foreign-policy/item/4245-fake-journalists Fake journalists], 'Spinwatch', 19 March 2005.
 *Angela Millar and David Miller, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070301115913/http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/451/9/ Rose Gentle Censored by MoD], 'Spinwatch', 22 September 2004, archived at the internet Archive.
-*[https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq], Communication from Rear Admiral [[Nick Wilkinson]] to media editors, 3 September 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
 ===D Notices and official publicity===
 *[[D-Notice No. 10]]

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 ==Resources==
 *David Miller, [https://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/propaganda/item/5998-two-d-notices-for-skripal-affair Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair], 'Spinwatch', 8 May 2018.
 *[[D-Notice No. 10]]
 *[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004.
 *[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
 *[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]
-*Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System By Nicholas John Wilkinson, ISBN: 978-0-415-45375-2 Routledge Publication Date: 05/26/2009.
+*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dnotice.org.uk dnotice.org.uk]
 ==Notes==