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The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) was established on Monday 8 September 2014 following the windup of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), which had been the main industry regulator of the press in the United Kingdom since 1990.

The Editors’ Code of Practice sets out the rules that newspapers and magazines regulated by IPSO have agreed to follow.

The Code is written and administered by the Editors’ Code Committee and enforced by IPSO.

1. Accuracy
2. Privacy
3. Harassment
4. Intrusion into grief and  shock
5. Reporting suicide
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
    
    

IPSO Blog: Reporting sexual offences

Head of Standards Charlotte Urwin on the importance of encouraging conversations about sexual violence and our new guidance and public information can support journalists and survivors.

Last week I spoke at a conference in Birmingham, bringing together Independent Sexual Violence Advisers from across the UK. ISVAs provide emotional support and guidance for anyone reporting current or non-recent sexual offences through the Criminal Justice System.

I was there to launch new information we have produced for survivors of sexual offences, explaining what they can expect if they speak to a journalist about their experience; as well as guidancewe have produced for journalists on how to report sexual offences.

Newspaper terminology 

reception theory

 Reception Theory

 • The reception theory is when the director/producer constructs a text in which there is a meaning or message encoded. The meaning of the text lies with the audience. It allows the audience to come up with their own thoughts and feelings on how they want to accept the text, although meaning needs to be displayed throughout, through dialogue from characters or actions.

 It considered how texts were encoded with the intentions and meanings or the directors/producers then how it was decoded/ understood by the audience. 

 It suggests that the intentions when a text are constructed with a meaning or message they are wished to convey to the audience. However, some audiences will correctly decode this and understand the original intentions or reject/ misunderstand the original message

 Stuart hall argues that all media appears to reflect reality when in fact it actually constructs it. Theoretically, he addresses issues within how people perceive media texts. Where a dominant ideology is mostly adopted by audiences. He identified three types of audiences reading messages-

  1) Dominant/ preferred reading 

  2) Negotiated reading 

  3) Oppositional reading

Gatekeepers 

- Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication

News values

- are general guidelines or criteria which determine how much prominence a media outlet gives a news story.

Hard news

- is the kind of fast-paced news that usually appears on the front page of newspapers. Stories that fall under the umbrella of hard news often deal with topics like business, politics and international news.

Soft news

- Soft news is defined as information that is primarily entertaining or personally useful

Convergence

- is the interlinking of computing and other information technologies, media content, media companies and communication networks

Synergy

- is when the interaction of two or more forces working together creates a greater effect than the sum of their individual efforts.

Intertextuality

- Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text.

hyperbole- Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech

The audience of The Sun

Approximately on-third of The Sun readers are in the ABC1 socio-economic group, and two thirds are in groups C2 to E.

Around 25 per cent of readers are aged 15 to 35, and 75 per cent are 35 and over.

Nearly 60 per cent of readers are male.

The majority of the audience for The Sun is made up from males , aged 3 and over, and in the lower socio-economic groups.