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Press Complaints Commission. By Aoife O’Reilly. What are codes of practise?.
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Press Complaints Commission By Aoife O’Reilly
What are codes of practise? • Codes of practice are rules used by companies that keep everyone safe and stop people’s rights being breached. Different companies have different codes of practice that suit to their own company. In the media, the codes of practise are mainly about people’s rights, safety & privacy.
Press Complaints Commission (PCC) • The press complaints commission deal with complaints from readers about magazines or newspaper contents that is deemed unacceptable, misleading, inaccurate or has breached an individual’s privacy. • Anyone can complain to the PCC if they are not happy with something published in a newspaper or magazine. In some cases it has been the individual that is being written about that has reported an article as they believe it is inaccurate or unacceptable.
Codes of practice • Accuracy/opportunity to reply • Discrimination • Financial journalism • Harassment/intrusion into grief or shock • Privacy/confidential sources • Children/children in sex cases • Victims of sexual assault • Witness payments in criminal trials/payment to criminals
Accuracy/opportunity to reply • This code of practise is to make sure that everything printed in a newspaper or magazine is accurate and contains the correct information about the individual or event being written about.