ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the 'journalists' experience of reporting on terrorism has received little attention and has not been the subject of sustained empirical work. It also examines how practices of information control and access in the United Kingdom affect the media when reporting on terrorism and security. The chapter also discusses the 'Law, Terrorism and the Right to Know' research programme and also explored how governments and courts deal with security-related information, and the relationships between the state and the media along with terrorism context. Journalists frequently engage with Muslim communities, either with families or neighbours of those arrested or perhaps someone respected in the community that the defendant calls home. Defence lawyers will not have a great deal of information and will tend to say little or nothing at all. The chapter concluded by saying at certain times and in relation to a limited range of issues, secrecy may of course be essential where national security matters are concerned.
