YouCare.com - Fighting for Truth & Justice in Journalism

Readings

Below are listed some relevant reading and interesting articles on the subject of this campaign. We will continue to add to this list of links and information as the camapign develops. Please send us any links to anything that you think we should have in this section by clicking HERE.

Time for a Culture Change

'MediaWise Director Mike Jempson offers some practical suggestions about how the press complaints system might be improved. After ten years advising complainants against newspapers, MediaWise has developed very clear ideas about how the press complaints system can be improved.

There are an estimated 1,297 newspapers, 1,245 magazines, 617 radio stations and 350 television channels on offer to the British public and only a handful of companies that own them. Cross-media ownership gives these firms immense power over what we read, see and hear.'

Often operating across the world, they have an extraordinary influence over public discourse and culture, and are accountable only to those with a vested interest in their commercial success. Since few members of the public have any idea who these people are, or the extent to which their financial interests touch upon other aspects of our lives, we have little idea whether editorial content might be driven by considerations inimical to the public interest.

Download PDF (Source: Mediawise.org.uk )

Right of Reply and Press Standards Bill

A Bill to give persons a right of reply to correct factual inaccuracies in the press that are damaging to them; to establish and confer functions upon the Press Standards Board and the Press Standards Adjudicator; to create an offence in connection with non-compliance with an enforcement notice served by the Press Standards Board; and for connected purposes.

Download PDF

NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING IN THE U.K.

Editors’ Code of Practice

This is the newspaper and periodical industry’s Code of Practice. It is framed and revised by the Editors’ Code Committee made up of “independent” (ugh…hum) editors of national, regional and local newspapers and magazines. (Quite what INDEPENDENT means in relation to the Editors on this committee is beyond me but anyway).

This is what is expected of our newspapers. This is the code of ethics which newspapers are expected to abide by and it is the job of the Press Complaints commission to make sure that they do.

Download PDF

Why press regulation needs to be reformed: Peter Bradley MP Private members Bill

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/feb/22/pressandpublishing1

Interview with Meyer PCC main man

http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/07/interview-sir-christopher-meyer pcc.html

MPís plea over press deceptions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4298975.stm

Mpís right of reply launched unlikey to become law because of a lack of parliamentary time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4287255.stm

The Goodman affair mobile phone hacking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4287255.stm

Editor of News of the World joins the Tory party as head of communication