This week was the result that any aspiring/current/previous journalist has been anticipating... the Leveson enquiry result.
The report itself is 2,000 pages long and I doubt many will ever end up reading it in it's entirety, but here are the basic points;
A new press regulator should be set up, governed by a new Press Board to replace to PCC (The Press Complaints Commission). The board is to be independently set up by an appointments panel and should not include any serving editor or member of parliament or government.
This new board should create a new code of conduct for published journalists which should cover privacy, misrepresentation and accuracy. For those not adhering to this code of conduct, the regulator should have the power to control the details newspaper apologies including sizes and placings, impose fines of up to £1 million or 1% of the newspaper's turnover. However, the board should not have the power to ban the publication of articles.
The regulator should be backed up by a press law which forces newspapers to be included. Any newspaper that refuses to take part in the scheme would be instead regulated by Ofcom.
How will this affect Rupert Murdoch? I wonder. Here is the opening paragraph of an article Murdoch's paper, The Sun, published just the day after the enquiry results were released;
The report itself is 2,000 pages long and I doubt many will ever end up reading it in it's entirety, but here are the basic points;
A new press regulator should be set up, governed by a new Press Board to replace to PCC (The Press Complaints Commission). The board is to be independently set up by an appointments panel and should not include any serving editor or member of parliament or government.
This new board should create a new code of conduct for published journalists which should cover privacy, misrepresentation and accuracy. For those not adhering to this code of conduct, the regulator should have the power to control the details newspaper apologies including sizes and placings, impose fines of up to £1 million or 1% of the newspaper's turnover. However, the board should not have the power to ban the publication of articles.
The regulator should be backed up by a press law which forces newspapers to be included. Any newspaper that refuses to take part in the scheme would be instead regulated by Ofcom.
How will this affect Rupert Murdoch? I wonder. Here is the opening paragraph of an article Murdoch's paper, The Sun, published just the day after the enquiry results were released;
"Lord Justice Leveson yesterday launched a scathing attack on politicians and newspapers as he called for Britain's first Press law in 317 YEARS.'
Seems as if someone is a bit sore about the whole thing...
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