Tag Archives: Press Complaints Commission Code of Practice
Guardian beefs up its privacy code
Guardian News & Media, owner of the Guardian and Observer, has revised its internal editorial guidelines and beefed up the sections that protect privacy. The new guidelines supplement the provisions of the PCC Code, which provide that “Everyone is entitled … read more
Details of the new inquiry into press regulation and phone-hacking
It had been thought that the Prime Minister had pledged to set up two separate inquiries: one into phone-hacking and one into press regulation more generally. It now emerges that there is to be one inquiry split into two parts. … read more
Public inquiries into privacy and press regulation
BBC Radio 4′s PM programme’s ‘Privacy Commission’ has finished hearing evidence and will presumably be publishing its report shortly. Its terms of reference include “the recommendation of measures which may increase public confidence in media reporting in the UK and … read more
Privacy in Tweets – the debate continues
Addressing the Westminster Media Forum on the regulation of privacy and online media earlier today Baroness Buscombe, Chairman of the PCC, referred to the PCC’s decision in Baskerville (see a report of that decision here). Faced with some criticism of … read more
No privacy in Tweets
Publicly accessible postings on Twitter and other social media are not private, according to rulings by the Press Complaints Commission. The rulings were made following complaints against two national newspapers: Baskerville v Daily Mail and Baskerville v Independent on Sunday. … read more
Phone-hacking claims – a new legal pursuit
The pack of lawyers representing the alleged victims of phone hacking by the News of the World seems to grow on an almost weekly basis. The lawyer for Gordon Taylor, possibly the first person to get a settlement from the … read more
Undercover reporting – ‘Cablegate’
On 20 December 2010 the Daily Telegraph published a report based on secretly recorded conversations with the Business Secretary Vince Cable. The reporters from the Telegraph had gained access to Mr Cable’s advice surgery by falsely representing themselves as Liberal … read more
