28- ~ Wednesday, duly 1, 1998 — North Shore News

- New code adopted by pre

Self-regulatory
body sets new
ethical standard

THE B.C. Press

Council has adopted a
new set of guidelines for
handling complaints
against newspapers.

The council’s new chair-
man, Ted Hughes, QC, says
the new Code of Practice is
timely “because it will help
set ethical standards for the
newspaper industry on the
eve of. the millennium, as
well as give the public a sense
of what they should expect
from their newspapers.”

The new code, which
replaces one adopted in
1983 when the Press Council

elays

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“am hopeful that ideas coming
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:.. during peak periods this sum-

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‘arrive at. the

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was formed, is a marked
departure from the old code
in that it stresses the duties
of the modern press as well
as indicates the boundaries
news, apers should observe
in the performance of their
duty to inform the public.
The new code is the prod-
uct of more than a year of
consultation between council
and its more than 120 mem-
ber newspapers, and is

designed to act as a guideline
for council directors when
adjudicating compiaints.

The new code was adopt-
ed at the directors’ May 14
mecting of council and was
issued formally on Monday,
June 15.

Some of the new Code’s
features are:

Man expanded guideline on

discrimination, adding ances-
try, religion and marital sta-

tus:
® a requirement that news-
papers making donations to
politicians or political parties
must disclose that intorma-
tion during the election cam-
paign; and

@ 2 requirement for newspa-
pers to identify any technical
manipulation of a news pho-
tograph that may mislead
readers.

The press council itself

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consists of 11. directors, sir
of whom are drawn from the
public.

The council, the newspa:
per industry’s self- “regulating
body, functions.as an inde;
pendent, .nonjudicial, review
board that hears. complaints
from the. public’.about,the
conduct of the press: -::

The council also
motes and protects freedom

of: expression

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