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Press Complaints Commission

Codes of practice are essential guidelines that protect individuals' rights and ensure their safety within the media landscape. Each company has its own unique set of codes tailored to its practices. The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) handles complaints regarding misleading or unacceptable content in newspapers and magazines. Anyone can lodge a complaint if they believe their rights or privacy have been violated. Key codes include accuracy in reporting, discrimination, handling sensitive cases involving children and victims, and ethical journalism practices.

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Press Complaints Commission

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  1. Press Complaints Commission By Aoife O’Reilly

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. Discrimination

  7. Financial journalism

  8. Harassment/Intrusion into grief or shock

  9. Privacy/Confidential sources

  10. Children/Children in sex cases

  11. Victims of sexual assault

  12. Witness payments in criminal trials/payment to criminals

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