Major reform of Press Complaints Commission proposed
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Can independent self-regulation keep standards high and preserve press freedom?, submitted today to the Press Complaints Commission’s independent governance review, contains 28 recom-mendations for reform, supported by a survey commissioned specially for the submission and conducted by Ipsos MORI.
The MST submission recognises the valuable mediation work done by the PCC, but shows that the public expect more. It then sets out how out how the PCC could be reformed to perform the wider self-regulatory role that the public now expects, without requiring any statutory backing.
According to the opinion survey conducted for the submission, the public prefers an independent self-regulatory body (52%) to a newspaper industry complaints body (8%) or a regulatory body set up by the government (17%).
Moreover, rather than the chief purpose of this body being to mediate complaints between a newspaper and complainant (which 12% expect), the public expects the main role of an independent self-regula...
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