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News 24: Press Complaints Commission to regulate
audio-visual material on newspapers' websites
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Interviewed on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News 24's Straight Talk with Andrew Neil, Sir Christopher Meyer, Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), reveals that the press watchdog is to regulate audio-visual material on newspaper websites.
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Hailing the move as "a major step forward", he welcomes the newspapers' agreement in principle to extend the PCC's remit.
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The PCC already regulates online editions of newspapers.
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An announcement is expected in the near future.
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Notes to Editors
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Please credit Straight Talk with Andrew Neil, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News 24, when reporting this story.
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Extract from interview:
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Andrew Neil: "Are you now regulating what newspapers put on the web as well?"
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Sir Christopher Meyer: "Indeed we are."
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Andrew Neil: "Even their audio-visual material, which is not newspaper as such?"
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Sir Christopher Meyer: "Well that is a new-ish development. The basic situation has been for some time that we regulate what's in print and we regulate the photo and the word on electronic versions of newspapers. And we have now persuaded the newspaper and magazine industry of the United Kingdom to agree also the principle of our regulating moving pictures and sound on newspaper's websites."
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Andrew Neil: "But they'll be bound by the same sort of rules as they are in the papers we pick up in the morning..."
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Sir Christopher Meyer: "Exactly the same kind of rules. Now, we are going to make an announcement, I hope, pretty soon in the next few weeks about exactly what that entails – there are some definitions to be sorted out – but it's a major step forward, and it's the first time, I think, that newspapers have voluntarily agreed without outside pressure to extend the remit of regulation through the PCC."
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