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Regulation in Newspapers - Coggle Diagram

- - - - All information must be 1. Accurate, 2. Respectful of privacy, 3. Free from harassment and must not be gathered using clandestine devices.
      - They are also not allowed to publish misrepresentation, information which is untrue or an exaggerated truth about a certain person or group
      - Papers are allowed to say what they want about people if they have sources and that it’s in the public interest
- - - - Murdoch moved on from exposing politicians to exposing celebrities and building stories around gossip
        The Sun and the Mirror started hacking into people phones, seeing messages and private conversations which lead to journalists exposing people
        
        Journalists accidently sent a message on a missing girl’s phone to her mother
        
        Charlotte Church's parents were reported on and blackmailed
        
        It eventually came out that they were doing this, and it went to court, called the Leverson Enquiry
        Leverson talked to lots of celebrities, and it led to people going to prison and the shutdown of News or the World newspaper
        
        He suggested the introduction of a royal charter to regulate the newspapers, but instead the PCC was renamed to the IPSO, despite it still being a self-regulator
        
        To this day, the Guardian is the only newspaper that does not self-regulate, and despite the inquiry nothing really changed