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Press Code change on gender discrimination
Rules tightened to give extra protection from prejudicial or derogatory references
Reminder for editors as more rigorous code is launched
The first major review since 1999 of the newspaper industry’s editors’ Code of Practice has been unveiled by the Press Complaints Commission. It provides the rules by which the Commission regulates the newspaper industry, and calls on editors to observe
Newspaper men join Code of Practice committee
A newspaper watchdog group’s code of standards committee has two new members. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, and Trinity Mirror’s regional newspapers editorial director Neil Benson, are to sit on the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, which reviews the voluntary code
'Health check' to ensure Code of Practice remains valid
The Editors’ Code of Practice Committee is to launch a comprehensive reappraisal of the Code next month. The development is the first of a series of annual ‘health checks’ announced last year by Press Complaints Commission chairman Sir Christopher Meyer.
New PCC role for former regional editor
Former regional newspaper editor Ian Beales has been appointed secretary of the Press Complaints Commission’s code committee. Ian worked for the Western Daily Press for 34 years, editing the title for the last 20, before leaving the paper in April
"Clear case for self-regulation"
The Press Complaints Commission today set out the clear case for press self regulation, alongside evidence of how the PCC and the editors’ Code of Practice work in the interests of ordinary people. Two crucial documents – the collected evidence