Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Why we carried out this inquiry
Structure of the report
Acknowledgments
Chapter 2: History of Press Regulation in
the UK
Royal Commissions on the Press: 1947-1977
Calcutt Reports: 1990 and 1993
Editors' Code of Practice
Box 1: Notable changes to the Editors' Code
of Practice
House of Commons Select Committees
National Heritage Select Committee: 1993-1995
Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee:
Privacy and media intrusion: 2002-2003
Operation Motorman and What Price Privacy:
2006
Phone hacking
Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions:
2011-2012
Lead up to the Leveson Inquiry: Operation
Weeting: 2011
Launch of the Leveson Inquiry: 2011
Leveson Report: 2012
Box 2: Key points of the Leveson Report
Box 3: The new self-regulatory body
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Where are we now?
Reaction to and implementation of the
Leveson Report recommendations
Closure of the PCC
Parliamentary debate
Royal Charter
Press Recognition Panel
Box 4: Royal Charter provisions for the Press
Recognition Panel
Appointment
Funding
Timescale of Work
Independent Press Standards Organisation
(IPSO) and the Regulatory Funding Company
IPSO
IPSO's Procedures and Regulations
Box 5: IPSO's main functions
IPSO complaints procedure
Figure 1: Flowchart of IPSO's complaints
procedure
Regulatory Funding Company (RFC)
Editors' Code of Practice
Relationship between IPSO and the RFC
Criticism of IPSO and the RFC
The Independent Monitor of the Press (IMPRESS)
Recognition
Distinction from IPSO
Other models of regulation
The Guardian
The Financial Times
Chapter 4: Key issues requiring clarification
Crime and Courts Act 2013
Relevant publisher
Exemplary damages and costs
Arbitration
Impact of multiplicity of regulators
Whistle-blowing hotline
Ownership of the Editors' Code of Practice
Chapter 5: Key concerns
Questions to the Press Recognition Panel
Questions to Independent Press Standards
Organisation (IPSO) and the Regulatory Funding Company (RFC)
Question to The Independent Monitor of the
Press (IMPRESS)
Questions to the Government
Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations
of interest
Appendix 2: List of witnesses
Appendix 3: Inquiry Announcement
Appendix 4: Press regulation in the UK—timeline
Appendix 5: IPSO measured against the 38
recommendations in the Leveson Report
Appendix 6: Glossary
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/press-regulation-where-are-we-now
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives
(020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.
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