Introduction to the PCC

1. What does PCC stand for?
Press Complaints Commission

2. Briefly explain what it is.
The PCC is an independent self-regulatory body which deals with complaints about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites).

3. What are the 'codes of practice'? List them.
A list of things the editor has to check everybody sticks to.

1 - Accuracy
2 - Opportunity to reply
3 - Privacy
4 - Harassment
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
http://www.pcc.org.uk/cop/practice.html

4. When does it act?
When the COP are broken

5. What things can it do?