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Transparency is in the public interest

Posted on May 22, 2015 by MediaWise Admin

22 May 2015 – The massive Mirror payouts for invasions of privacy in pursuit of headlines and the bottom line will not be the end of the scandals that have beset the British press in recent years. We can expect … Continue reading →

Posted in IPSO, PCC, Press Freedom, Privacy, Public interest, Regulation

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

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

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

We need more transparency and accountability from the press (and as for reforming the PCC – what’s wrong with the Irish model?)

Posted on October 11, 2013 by MediaWise Admin

11 October 2013 – The MediaWise Trust has sent all Westminster MPs a copy of How fragile is media credibility? the final report of a 14-nation academic study of Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe and the Arab World which … Continue reading →

Posted in PCC, Press Freedom, Public interest, Regulation

The Press Barons’ Charter for PCC Mark II

Posted on May 13, 2013 by MediaWise Admin

13 May 2013 – The idea of parliamentarians using an ancient device like a Royal Charter to provide recognition for any new press regulatory body set up by the publishing industry may have its charms, but it is a rather … Continue reading →

Posted in Code of conduct, PCC, Regulation

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