Media Standards Trust: watching the PCC
A relatively new blog has been set up by the Media Standards Trust to provide regular scrutiny of the work of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and press self-regulation in the UK. As the...
View ArticlePress Complaints Commission: Sunday Times columnist breached Editors’ Code
The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint from television broadcaster Clare Balding against language used in a television review by AA Gill, published by the The Sunday Times in July....
View ArticlePCC is effective but faces ‘massive issues of perception’, says public...
If only people knew more about the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), says its public affairs director Will Gore, they could learn to love it. The body was set up in 1991 from the ruins of the Press...
View ArticleRadio 4: Max Mosley outlines ‘really very simple’ privacy claim prior to...
In an interview on this morning’s Radio 4 Today show, Max Mosley outlined the reasons behind his attempt to change privacy laws in Strasbourg today. The former FIA chairman outlined the ruling as a...
View ArticleMedia Standards Trust poses questions over Northern & Shell PCC exclusion
Following news that Richard Desmond’s publisher Northern & Shell had withdrawn all of its titles – including the Daily Mirror and OK! Magazine – from the PCC’s self regulatory system, the Media...
View ArticlePCC chair addresses issue of privacy in online media
The Press Complaints Commission is best placed to regulate the press in relation to privacy and online media, chairman Baroness Buscombe said today. Speaking at the Westminster Media Forum Buscombe...
View Article‘Questions need answers’ from NotW, says PCC chair
The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Baroness Peta Buscombe, has said there are “serious questions which need answers” by News International after “their own internal inquiries were not...
View ArticleMediaGuardian: PCC to regulate press Twitter feeds
Guardian media and technology editor Dan Sabbagh reports this afternoon that reporters’ and newspapers’ Twitter feeds are expected to brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission...
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Rusbridger: ‘If we want a PCC that is effective we will all have to pay more’
Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, who has been and remains a vocal critic of the Press Complaints Commission, argued last night that the regulatory body should be supported and improved, not...
View ArticleFinancial Times: PCC chief demands meetings with national newspaper publishers
The Financial Times reports this morning that the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, Lady Buscombe, has demanded individual meetings with every publisher of national newspapers in the UK,...
View ArticlePCC rejects ‘not a regulator’ claim
The Press Complaints Commission has responded to an article published yesterday which claimed that the body was just a mediator and not a regulator. The piece, by Brunel University’s professor of...
View ArticleMartin Moore: seven models for reform of self-regulation
Revelations about the extent of the phone-hacking scandal have fuelled discussion about the state of self-regulation and possible reform. Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust, has...
View ArticleMeejaLaw: Outgoing PCC chair takes a swipe at the Guardian
Baroness Buscombe, outgoing chair of the Press Complaints Commission, singled out the Guardian during a talk at City University last night, accusing the paper of misquoting her “non-stop” for three...
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Newspapers and PCC deny Baroness Buscombe claims
Three newspaper publishers have denied a claim by Baroness Buscombe (pictured) that they threatened to quit the organisation because of negative adjudication recently. Responding to Robert Jay QC at...
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PCC seeks ideas from Irish press regulatory system
The Press Complaints Commission is looking at the Irish press watchdog system as a possible option for reforming the UK self-regulatory approach, according to reports. Press Council of Ireland...
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