PCC Confirms Widening Online Remit

The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has formally confirmed that it will be regulating audio-visual content on newspaper and magazine websites.

Last month, Sir Christopher Meyer, PPC chairman revealed that the organisation had reached an agreement with publishers to see it regulate aduio-visual content (see PCC To Widen Online Remit).

Tim Bowdler, chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance, said: “It is extremely important that self regulation should evolve in a carefully considered manner to take account of the developing ways in which our publications, in print and on-line, communicate with readers.”

Sir Christopher Meyer, chairman of the PCC, added: “The range and quality of digital editorial material offered by newspapers and magazines have expanded at a dizzying pace over the last couple of years.

“These developments will only accelerate. What the industry has done in announcing this extension of the PCC’s remit is to underline its confidence in the system of common-sense regulation that we operate, and to demonstrate to the public that editorial information in the digital age – regardless of the format in which it is delivered – will be subject to high professional standards overseen by the Commission.”

PCC: www.pcc.org.uk