Regulation and Politics

The Guardian and Observer:

- The Guardian is a daily newspaper published by the Guardian Group and owned by the Scott Trust.
- The Guardian changes its name to The Observer on a Sunday.

The Guardian and Observer's principles:

- develop ideas that help to improve the world, not just critique it
- collaborate with readers and others have greater impact
- diversify,to have richer reporting from a representative newsroom
- be meaningful in all their work
report fairly on people as well as power and find things out. This underpins all of the above




Newspaper Industry Regulation:

'Freedom of the Press':

The government have no control over what is published in newspapers.

Leveson Inquiry

The judicial public inquiry into ethics on the phone hacking scandal, lead by Lord Justice Leveson, who was appointed in July 2011. Multiple public hearings were held through 2011 and 2012.

13th July 2011: Lord Justice Leveson was appointed as chairman of the inquiry.
14th November 2011: Lord Justice Leveson said: "At the heart of this Inquiry, therefore, may be one simple question: who guards the guardians?"

Celebrities would be constantly followed around.
Many had private information leaked when it shouldn't of been.
Felt like abuse to many people.
Mothers were being sent voicemails from their dead daughters.

IPSO

8th September 2014: The Independent Press Standards Organisation was founded.

Was created to follow up the windup of Press Complaints Commission.
Their chairman is leaving in late 2019.

OFCOM


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