Plurality Focus on News
Leveson Inquiry · An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press · Issued 29 November 2012 · Addressed to: UK Government
Government responseUK Government: Accepted in part (Aug 2014)
DeliveryNo statement from UK Government found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
The particular public policy goals of ensuring that citizens are informed and preventing too much influence in any one pair of hands over the political process are most directly served by concentrating on plurality in news and current affairs. This focus should be kept under review.
Leveson Inquiry, An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press · 29 Nov 2012 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Inquiry asked ministers to concentrate media plurality policy on news and current affairs. In August 2014, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport concluded that online content should be included within any measurement framework and that news and current affairs is most relevant to media plurality, but it did not mention keeping this focus under review (Department for Culture, Media and Sport response, Aug 2014).
Sources
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Report-level response context
Government response
●UK Government · Accepted in part · 6 Aug 2014
Taking into consideration the consultation response and Lord’s Committee report, the Government’s conclusions are therefore: Online should be included within the scope of any new measurement framework. The type of content which is most relevant to media plurality is news and current affairs.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from UK Government has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
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