Press Complaints Commission (PCC)

The PPC's code was created by the Members of the Commission.  They justify their self regulation of their industry with the aim of maintaining high standards of ethics in journalism.  The PCC is funded by the newspaper and magazine industry but operates independently of it. Newspapers and magazines pay an annual levy to the Press Standards Board of Finance, an organisation modelled on the self-regulatory system established by the advertising industry in 1974. This arrangement ensures secure financial support for the PCC, while its complete independence is at the same time guaranteed by a majority of lay members. A list of members of Press of is available here. The PCC receives no government funding and is free from statutory control.  The sixteen code of practise are; accuracy, Oppotunity to reply, Privacy, Harassment, Instrusion into grief or shock, Children, Children in sex cases, Hospitals, Reporting of Crime, Clandestine devices and subterfuge, Victims of sexual assault, Discrimination, Financial journalism, Confidential sources, Witness payments in criminal trials and Payment to criminals.