Eva Ryall Introduction The tension between an individual’s right to privacy and the media’s role as a democratic watchdog through investigative journalism is one of the defining legal struggles of the digital age. Nowhere is this conflict more acute than in the application of the “public interest” test in UK media-privacy litigation. Although framed as an objective safeguard balancing Article 8 (privacy) and Article 10 (freedom of expression) rights under the European Convent