APPENDIX 57
Memorandum submitted by Sarah Wright,
Course Leader for Journalism at Warwickshire College
I understand that there is to be a gathering
of evidence and inquiry into the Press Complaints Commission and
the service that it offers. As course leader of a thriving Post-graduate
Journalism course, accredited by the National Council for the
Training of Journalists, I feel very strongly that my views on
the effectiveness of the PCC be heard, with respect to its crucially
important training role.
In the last two years we have had training visits
from both Professor Pinker and Ms. Susan Roberts. This training
has been planned and delivered with the utmost care and attention
to detail, in order that it will be informative, ethically sound
and relevant, to the both the formative training and future careers
of students aspiring to the profession of Journalism.
In order to help young journalists fully understand
and appreciate the complex relationship between media freedom
and responsibility and the balance between self-regulation and
independence, I feel it is absolutely essential that this training
role continues in the way that my students have experienced over
the last two years. This kind of training by the PCC must surely
be closely linked to improving the standards of the press in general.
14 January 2003
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