PCC Seminar Reflections

This useful aspect of this seminar was to get a better understanding of why the PCC does what it does today. Also, getting to see some case studies really demonstrated the thought process that goes into whether a complaint if upheld or not.

5 interesting facts I learnt from this seminar:

• Newspapers owned by Northern & Shell (Daily Star, Sunday Express, OK!, etc.) have not been regulated by the PCC since January
• If the PCC sees a breach of code but does not receive a complaint from the person in question, the PCC will inform them
• Each year, the PCC receives several complaints from people about things that do not breach the code, e.g. complaining about photographs being published that reveal a dangerous act of public interest
• The parts of the code that are breached the most often are accuracy and privacy
• The PCC can ask contact all press publications, to tell them not to harass a person, etc.