Post Levesaon regulation of the press

2011 – Lord Justice leveson was appointed in July

2012- The leveson report was published in November Following this was the hacking scandal. 

Leveson believed that the British Media should be questioned about their morals and general culture as he believes people should be allowed to have their privacy eg) people should be able to feel comfortable using their phones without fear of hackers invading their private lives. There was a lot of negative opinions and views about the phone hacking scandal, this is to be expected though given that people want to feel safe and private about things that are nobody business especially the Media. This is how they get their ‘News stories’. The inquires act was published and cost  £5.4 million but  on the other hand this act protects the rights of people privacy , so things like hackers can be punished or at least discouraged from doing what they want.

BBC Charter

The BBC Charter is an agreement that recognises public obligations and editorial independence that it has to follow. it renews every 10 years , it will be renewed in 2016. eight people of high authority from other large media broadcasters, have been appointed  to work with the BBC to assign the new charter. the executive of Yahoo believes that the BBC should cut the license fees as well as the sunday times reported that the BBC should not be chasing after views and should provide more public service programmes instead. 

Channel 4's future  

there is a decrease of advertising on the channel 4. a solution to this problem would be for channel 4 to be more like the BBC and get funds from the direct public subsidy. of com is a company that regulates the rules of what can be shown on television. this means that the channel 4 relies on funds and can have a major change what the channel 4 could show and what it would be not allowed to show due to what people paying for are interested in. as well as another possible solution would be for channel 4 to merge with channel five this can give both channels a chance to synergise and save on cost. channel 4's commercial operations may use the channel for the rights of content for both public service broadcasters effectively.