Regulatory Bodies

Regulatory Bodies -

Press Complaints Commision (PCC) -

The PCC is organisation that was established to manage the Press, They do this by constructing rules that the press must abide by. It was origionally founded in 1995 with the first chairman being Lord Wakeham and the current chairman being Lord Hunt.
The things that the PCC have control over includes:

• Readers Letters
• Audio Material
• Words and Pictures on newspapers
• Articles
• Reader Comments online

They also deal with physical acts of journalism such as:

• Using hidden cameras
• refusing requests to stop asking questions/taking pictures
• persuit of individuals
• not approaching cases involving grief and shock with a sensetive aproach
• failing to recieve the correct concent before interviewing children or people in hospitals

There is also an 'Editors Code' that is in place in the PCC The rules include:

• The person in the article must have a chance to reply if unproper infomation is published about them
• The press must take care not to publish inaccurate, missleading or distorted information
• The press must clearly distinguish between Conjecture, Comment and Fact
• A publication must report fairly and accuratly the outcome of an action for defamation unless an agreed settlement states otherwise

Also these are some rules that are in place for journalists, They must not engage in intimidation or harrasment or persistant pursuit.


Ofcom

Ofcom is a government aproves regualtory body that monitors the ethics and everything else of broadcasting. Ofcom license all television and radio services in the UK, this means broadcasters will have to comply by the Ofcom terms or they could have there license revoked. Ofcom publish the broadcasting code, this includes rules such what can be shown before 9pm on television. 

Oppertunities in the media sector

 

Contract Types
A Contract outlines the main points of a legal agreement and is used so everybody involved knows what is expected of them. A contract aslo includes what will happen if the contract is broken for example you could be fined or even fired from your job all together.

There is lots of different types of contracts which include:

• Part Time - Part time contracts are used for people who are going to work approximately between 16 and 18 hours weekly and part time jobs are often worked by students who have to go to college or university aswell as having to work part time hense why they only work a job with less hours than a full time job. An advantage of this is that although you are working and getting paid a waige you are still left with free time to spend doing what you want, a dissadvantage of part time work is that it may not be enough hours work and you may not be making enough money to live on and provide for yourself but in this day and age jobs are hard to come by so people will take what they can get.
• Full Time - In a full time job you are often contracted to work for around 37 to 39 hours weekly which often means working everyday for around 8 hours. This is normally worked by adults who have finished their studying and have moved on from that and gone into a career which they are trying to have for as long as possible. the advantages of having a full time contract is that you will be earning a full time waige which will obviously leave you with more money than a part time would so you will have lots more money for what you want and you will be able to live life how you want. Another advantage of full time contracts is that the employer has to offer you a penison which is where they pay a percentage of your pension and you also pay some money towards it so once you retire you gain your pension which you have worked for. A dissadvantage of a fulltime contract is that you might not get enough time off as you would like or you might not get enough anual leave as you would like to be able to take a holiday or something like that.
• Temperary Work -
• Free Lance - 
• On Completion -
• Casual -