IPSO

IPSO- Indépendant, Press, Standards, Organisation

IPSO Provides a set of rules to regulate journalism and press standards in the UK- The Editors Code

Areas covered in the editors code

  • Accuracy
  • Privacy
  • Harassment
  • Intrusion into grief or shock
  • Reporting suicide
  • Children
  • Children in Sex cases
  • Hospitals
  • Reporting of crime
  • Victims of Sexual assault
  • Discrimination
  • Financial journalism
  • The Public interest
Privacy may impact journalism as they may not get the full story they want because they cant invade peoples privacy such as releasing a celebrities address or hacking someone's phone conversation as it would breach their privacy and could therefore put the individual in danger.

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