A student made PowerPoint on issues surrounding Regulation

1. Regulation of
Newspapers
By Nathan, Matt and Holly

2. IPSO - Independent Press
Standards Organisation.
• New regulations agency set up specifically for
national, regional and local newspapers and
magazines in 2013.
• Set up as a self regulatory system for media as an
independent, tough and effective regulator fully in
line with the principles of the Leveson Report

3. • Was a tabloid sold in the UK.
• It shut down operations due to the phone hacking
scandal of 2011.
• It caused a government led enquiry looking into
media regulation, the Leveson Inquiry.
• Editor Rebekah Brooks ordered the hacking of
phones of the famous to get stories.
• Included people like Hugh Grant, Gordon Brown
and parents of murdered school girl Sarah Payne.

4. Press Complaints
Commission
• The Press Complaints
Commission is an independent
body, which has been set up
to examine complaints about
the editorial content of UK
newspapers and magazines
(and their websites).
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The PCC look at complaints about these:
Articles and pictures
Words and pictures (including video) on
newspaper and magazine websites
Audio material on newspaper and
magazine websites
Readers' letters
Edited or moderated reader comments on
newspaper and magazine websites

5. Leveson Inquiry
• Judicial public inquiry set up to look into the culture,
practices and ethics of the British press following the
News International phone hacking scandal, chaired
by Lord Justice Leveson.
• Published the Leveson Report in November 2012,
which reviewed the general culture and ethics of
the British media, and made recommendations for
a new, independent, body to replace the existing
Press Complaints Commission.
• Leveson found that the existing Press Complaints
Commission is not sufficient, and recommends a
new independent body, which would have a range
of sanctions available to it, including fines.