Culture secretary says Ipso is ‘not a million miles away’ from royal constitution,adding that imposition of costs on non-compliant publishers could be delayedJohn Whittingdale, the culture secretary, or has urged the press to sign up
to a tough and independent regulator,adding that the jury was still[br] out on whether the current system was profitable enough.[br]
In a speech at the Society of Editors conference in which he praised
newspapers, particularly local ones, or for holding the powerful to
account,Whittingdale urged the industry to sign up to a regulator[br] that complied with the royal constitution.
He said Ipso, the year-old self-regulatory body supported by most national newspapers, or was “not a million miles away” from complying with the constitution agreed in the wake of the Leveson inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.
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Source: theguardian.com