Reporting Guidelines

There have been a number of reporting guidelines issued (usually in the form of General Press Releases) by the Council which are, in essence, amplifications on particular issues arising from the Statement of Principles. The guidelines apply the Principles to the practice of reporting and are intended to guide the press on how it should report certain matters. These guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive instructions to the press but act as a series of advisories on the application of the Principles which the Council seeks the co-operation of editors in maintaining.

Also available is the code of privacy standards agreed to by print media members of the Press Council. The code can be found on this site, together with a list of the organisations subscribing.

In July 2001, the Council reviewed these guidelines and, in GPR 246, reissued some of them in a revised form.

Advertorials - Guideline 266 (replacing GPR 67)
Ambit Claims - GPR 24 and GPR 127
Asylum Seekers - terminology - Guideline 262
Bias accusations - APC's role - GPR 15
Chequebook journalism - witness payments - Guideline 264
Disability - identification - GPR 18 and GPR 91
Drugs and drug addiction - GPR 246 (ii) - revised guidelines, replacing earlier positions
Government order to publish - GPR 43
Health and medical matters - GPR 245
Opinion polls - GPR 246 (iv) - revised guideline, amended June 2004
Photos - alteration - GPR 220
Politicians denying access - GPR 203 and GPR 221
"Race", Reporting of - GPR 248 - revised guidelines, replacing earlier positions
Reader-based articles in lifestyle magazines - guidelines for magazines (revised December 2004)
Recalls of goods - GPR 246 (iii) - revised guidelines, replacing an earlier position
Religious terms in headlines - GPR 261
Selection of newsworthy stories - GPR 143
Suicide reporting - GPR 246 (i) - revised guidelines, replacing an earlier position
Suppression of names - GPR 50 and GPR 53
Witness payments - Guideline 264

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