Regulations In The Newspaper Industry

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Regulation - rules that regulate the film industry. The film industry in the uk is heavily rated by the bbfc age ratings. Eg, there are some words you can't say in 12 rated films with the swear word, as it would push into a 15 rating


  • the regulation of the media industries is largely ineffective
  • people can do things against the rues because its easy to go against it
  • people allow self regulation
  • regulation is because it may harm a young audience
  • regulation - system of rules that the media have to follow
  • regulatory frame work - bbfc regulate films - newspapers are regulated by IPSO 
  • we need to have regulation because young people in the UK are easily manipulated

Livingstone and hunt
The increasing power of the rising there is, convergent media technologies say that we can't control people and what they do, can't control the media.



Editors' Code resources - what they look in to, points etc...: 

Editors' Code of Practice is agreed to by everyone with a magazine/newspaper in the industry.
It is written by the Editors Code of Practise Committee.
The IPSO regulations are almost identical to the BBFC regulations. There is a little more in privacy, though.

All of the terms regarding 'harassment' and 'intimidation' are subject to their opinion. Some people might be offended, or feel a certain way by things, which others do not. It all depends on the person and their interpretation. Actually, a lot of the terms are subject to interpretation.

This is one of the big issues of regulation, newspapers in the UK cannot legally report who someone is, but due to the internet it is very easy to find out. The regulation of UK news is very corrupt.

Newspapers in the UK are largely self-regulated. A newspaper can use their power to harass and intimidate people due to the regulations being subject to interpretation, and therefore corrupt, as there are no set rules.

Accuracy
Privacy
Harassment
Intrusion into grief or shock
Reporting Suicide
Children
Children in sex cases
Hospitals
Reporting of Crime
Clandestine devices and subterfuge
Victims of sexual assault
Discrimination
Financial journalism
Confidential sources
Witness payments in criminal trials
Payments to criminals
The Public Interest - they say there are no definitive rules to this


STORIES:

EasyJet worker and daughter, 3, found strangled at home as boyfriend arrested

  • Intrusion into grief and shock
  • There is no personal regard to the children involved, under rule 'reporting of crime'
  • Privacy - they literally say where they are

For exam tomorrow - phone hacking scandal, news international, now owners of the times. This is why it is important, because despite having a respectable image, they were involved in something very scandalous, which is morally and ethically wrong. Multiple journalists who were involved within this scandal still work for the paper.














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