Editors’ Code of Practice

This is the newspaper and periodical industry’s Code of Practice. It is framed and revised by the Editors’ Code Committee made up of independent editors of national, regional and local newspapers and magazines. The Press Complaints Commission, which has a majority of lay members, is charged with enforcing the Code, using it to adjudicate complaints. It was ratified by the PCC on the 1 August 2007. Clauses marked* are covered by exceptions relating to the public interest.

The CodeAll members of the press have a duty to maintain the highest professional standards. The Code, which includes this preamble and the public interest exceptions below, sets the benchmark for those ethical standards, protecting both the rights of the individual and the public's right to know. It is the cornerstone of the system of self regulation to which the industry has made a binding commitment.

It is essential that an agreed code be honoured not only to the letter but in the full spirit. It should not be interpreted so narrowly as to compromise its commitment to respect the rights of the individual, nor so broadly that it constitutes an unnecessary interference with freedom of expression or prevents publication in the public interest.It is the responsibility of editors and publishers to apply the Code to editorial material in both printed and online versions of publications. They should take care to ensure it is observed rigorously by all editorial staff and external contributors, including non-journalists.Editors should co-operate swiftly with the PCC in the resolution of complaints. Any publication judged to have breached the Code must print the adjudication in full and with due prominence, including headline reference to the PCC.

The code of conduct deals with the following sixteen subcategories

1. Accuracy

2. Opportunity to reply

3. Privacy

4. Harassment Privacy

5. Intrusion into grief or shock

6. Children

7. Children in sex cases

8. Hospitals

9. Reporting of Crime

10. Clandestine devices and subterfuge

11. Victims of sexual assault

12 Discrimination

13. Financial journalism

14. Confidential sources

15. Witness payments in criminal trials

16. Payment to criminals


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Well even if you do happen to look past the fact that it is a completely unethical tutorial deemed rather repulsive to most of us is the content of the tutorial. Rather than a step by step manual about HTML, it seems like a prolonged defused attempt to bore the life of those who are trying to learn the intrinsic worth of mastering the HTLM system.