{"id":90584,"date":"2016-07-21T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=90584"},"modified":"2016-07-21T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:56:12","slug":"could-offshore-journalism-bypass-press-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/could-offshore-journalism-bypass-press-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Could \u201coffshore journalism\u201d bypass press regulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Press regulator IPSO is <u>reviewing its rules<\/u>\u00a0regarding its global remit following recent claims that a Mail Online story about Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise, was inaccurate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editors at the Mail Online refused defend the story, stating that it was commissioned, written and published in the United States for a US audience and fully complied with US laws and conventions.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of any defence from the publisher, IPSO upheld the complaint and insisted the Mail Online publish a critical adjudication. The adjudication was buried deep on the Mail Online\u2019s extensive home page, neatly slotted beside an article about possible reform at the IPSO, while the original unaltered article remains online.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the challenges facing press regulation in the modern age, the Mail Online <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3696929\/IPSO-rethink-regulation-foreign-news-UK-global-publishers.html#ixzz4EsI5T5PZ\">reports<\/a><\/u>\u00a0that IPSO Chief Executive, Matt Tee said: \u201cWhen the current regulations were drafted nearly four years ago, it was difficult to imagine the developments that would take place in digital publishing, with some publishers having numerous editorial bureaux across the world focussed on different audiences in different time zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is already an issue for some IPSO members and is bound to affect others in future. It may also be a disincentive to other global digital publishers joining IPSO. We want a solution that enables IPSO to be an effective regulator for relevant consumers and provides a definition that is intuitive and workable for publishers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In an increasingly global world, where media is no longer restricted by physical distribution networks, the idea of a publication being tied to one country (and its laws and its regulations) becomes untenable. Defining an audience by geography is also no easy task when news knows no boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>This also throws up questions about how publishers can use their global status. In the future, could we see publishers moving to \u201cflags of convenience\u201d and the offshoring of journalists and editors to bypass regulations?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already seen UK laws made a mockery of by publishers operating outside of British jurisdiction. Will regulation go the same way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press regulator IPSO is reviewing its rules regarding its global remit following recent claims that a Mail Online story about Hollywood actor, Tom Cruise, was inaccurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":90587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,3729],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}