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Press complaints – plenty to choose from

Posted on September 12, 2014 by MediaWise Admin

12 September 2014 – This week saw the launch of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) and a rooftop reception in old Fleet Street for its ‘Leveson compliant’ alternative the Independent Monitor for the Press (IMPRESS) which between them will … Continue reading →

Posted in Code of conduct, IPSO, PCC, Regulation

USA – Society of Professional Journalists (2014)

Posted on September 9, 2014 by MediaWise Admin

Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), approved 4:49p.m. Saturday 6 September 2014. Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. Ethical journalism strives … Continue reading →

Posted in Code

No one is censoring the media about suicide, we’re just asking for sensitivity

Posted on August 15, 2014 by MediaWise Admin

15 August 2014 – The death of much-loved improviser extraordinaire Robin Williams at his own hand seems to have given some newspapers a green light to “go off on one” – delving into his psyche with gay abandon, detailing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Public interest, Suicide

IPSO: It’s déjà vu all over again

Posted on June 1, 2014 by MediaWise Admin

1 June 2014 – ‘Give newspapers more time to put their houses in order.’ Sounds familiar? That was the plea of Labour’s Lord MacGregor, the then Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, in January 1992. He was responding to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Code, PCC, Public interest, Regulation

MediaWise supports access to information and independent media

Posted on February 3, 2014 by MediaWise Admin

The MediaWise Trust is one of 195 civil society groups calling on the United Nations (UN) to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development. A joint statement – coordinated by ARTICLE … Continue reading →

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Coronation Street shows it’s time to grow up about how suicide is portrayed on TV

Posted on January 21, 2014 by MediaWise Admin

21 January 2014 – Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper killed herself before the watershed last night. The build up to this prompted the inevitable moral panic frenzy. The media’s role in the representation of suicide is certainly a sticky topic, with … Continue reading →

Posted in PCC, Regulation, Suicide

IPSO FACTO – No EU conspiracy for state control of the press (P.S. The PCC is useless)

Posted on November 25, 2013 by MediaWise Admin

25 November 2013 – After seven weary months and a correspondence running to more than 20,000 words, the Press Complaints Commission has made a final ‘adjudication’ about Andrew Gilligan’s ludicrous claim in the Sunday Telegraph last April that a motley … Continue reading →

Posted in PCC, Regulation

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