Broadcasting regulations
Notes from lecture
Press regulation
IPSO, IMPRESS, OFCOM
IPSO
- Regulates most of newspaper and magazine industry
- Self-regulatory
Public Interest – sth public has a right to know, need to know in terms of importance, in some cases, you do not have to follow the code, there is a public interest in freedom of expression. You should make notes how you proceeded.
The Editor´s Code of Practice
- 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
- Payment to Criminals
RECAP:
Make sure all info you publish is accurate and checked
Make sure you understand privacy conditions
Examine whether you can use material from soc media
Examine whether public interest exception may be invoked
Make sure you don’t implicate ppl irrelevant to the story
Keep a record and proof of the steps you’ve taken to reach your decisions
Refer to your editor
Broadcasting regulation
OFCOM Broadcasting Code (The Office of Communications)
Libel – defamation, Intellectual property plagiarism
- Defamation
- Is covered by law
- Protection of a person´s reputation and freedom of speech
- Libel: permanent form of defamation (written form)
- Slander: spoken, verbal defamation
- Liar, cheat, insolvent, in Financial difficulties
- almost always defamatory unless proven true
- Intellectual Property
- Names of products or brands
- Inventions
- The design or look of products
- Things you write, make, produce
- Sth unique that sb physically create
- An idea alone is not intellectual property