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Lady chief justice calls for high-quality reporting and more broadcasting

“A free, strong press is fundamental to democracy,” the lady chief justice of England and Wales told reporters yesterday.

Giving her first news conference since taking office last October, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill said she knew of the pressures that that journalists were under in terms of workload and resources.

“But I am keenly aware that the…