IPSO CODE Flashcards
(19 cards)
What are the 16 Clauses of the IPSO code
Accuracy
Privacy
Harassment
Intrusion into grief or shock
Reporting Suicide
Hospitals
Children
Children in Sex Cases
Victims of Sexual Assault
Reporting of Crime
Clandestine Devices and Subterfuge
Discrimination
Financial Journalism
Payment to witnesses
Payment to criminals
Confidential Sources
Key phrases from Clause 1 Accuracy
The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text.
Key phrases from Clause 2 Privacy
Everyone is entitled to respect for their private and family life, home, physical and mental health, and correspondence, including digital communications.
It is unacceptable to photograph individuals, without their consent, in public or private places where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Key phrases from Clause 3 Harrassment
Journalists must not engage in intimidation, harassment or persistent pursuit.
Key phrases from Clause 4 Intrusion into grief or shock
In cases involving personal grief or shock, enquiries and approaches must be made with sympathy and discretion and publication handled sensitively.
Key phrases from Clause 5 Reporting Suicide
to prevent simulative acts care should be taken to avoid excessive detail of the method use
Key phrases from Clause 6 Children
All pupils should be free to complete their time at school without unnecessary intrusion.
Editors must not use the fame, notoriety or position of a parent or guardian as sole justification for publishing details of a child’s private life.
Children under 16 must not be interviewed or photographed on issues involving their own or another child’s welfare unless an adult with legal parental responsibility or similarly responsible adult consents.
Key phrases from Clause 7 Children in sex cases
The press must not, even if legally free to do so, identify children under 16 who are victims or witnesses in cases involving sex offences.
Key phrases from Clause 8 Hospitals
Journalists must identify themselves and obtain permission from a responsible executive before entering non-public areas of hospitals or similar institutions to pursue enquiries.
Key phrases from Clause 9 Reporting of crime
potentially vulnerable position of children under the age of 18 who witness, or are victims of, crime, should not be identified unless genuinely relevant to the story. - also applies to adult friends and family
avoid naming children under the age of 18 after arrest for a criminal offence but before they appear in a youth court unless they can show that the individual’s name is already in the public domain, or that the individual (or, if they are under 16, a custodial parent or similarly responsible adult) has given their consent. This does not restrict the right to name juveniles who appear in a crown court, or whose anonymity is lifted.
Key phrases from Clause 10 Clandestine Devices and subterfuge
The press must not seek to obtain or publish material acquired by using hidden cameras or clandestine listening devices; or by intercepting private or mobile telephone calls, messages or emails; or by the unauthorised removal of documents or photographs; or by accessing digitally-held information without consent.
Key phrases from Clause 11 Victims of Sexual assault
The press must not identify or publish material likely to lead to the identification of a victim of sexual assault unless there is adequate justification and they are legally free to do so.
Key phrases from Clause 12 Discrimination
avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual’s race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.
Details of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or disability.
must be avoided unless relevant to story
Key phrases from Clause 13 Financial Journalism
journalists must not use for their own profit financial information they receive in advance of its general publication, nor should they pass such information to others.
must not write about shares or securities in whose performance they know that they or their close families have a significant financial interest
must not buy or sell, either directly or through nominees or agents, shares or securities about which they have written recently or about which they intend to write in the near future.
Key phrases from Clause 14 Confidential Sources
Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources of information.
Key phrases from Clause 15 Witness payments in criminal trials
No payment or offer of payment to a witness – or any person who may reasonably be expected to be called as a witness – should be made in any case once proceedings are active as defined by the Contempt of Court Act 1981.
Unless the information concerned ought demonstrably to be published in the public interest and there is an over-riding need to make or promise payment for this to be done;
Key phrases from Clause 16 payments to criminal
Payment or offers of payment for stories, pictures or information, which seek to exploit a particular crime or to glorify or glamorise crime in general, must not be made directly or via agents to convicted or confessed criminals or to their associates
Which clauses have a public interest defence
Payment to criminals
One section of payment to Witnesses in a criminal trial
Clandestine Devices and Subterfuge
Reporting of crime
Hospitals
Children in sex cases
Children
Reporting Suicide
Harassment
Privacy
What is the public interest defence
he public interest includes, but is not confined to:
Detecting or exposing crime, or the threat of crime, or serious impropriety.
Protecting public health or safety.
Protecting the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation.
Disclosing a person or organisation’s failure or likely failure to comply with any obligation to which they are subject.
Disclosing a miscarriage of justice.
Raising or contributing to a matter of public debate, including serious cases of impropriety, unethical conduct or incompetence concerning the public.
Disclosing concealment, or likely concealment, of any of the above.
