Mónica Codina







Spanish media self-regulation: Its purpose and challenges

This paper gives a brief overview of the media self-regulation bodies in Spain, what they are, their historical background and the challenges they face today. It will examine the activities of the audiovisual regulatory bodies in Catalonia and Andalusia and the controversy over the creation of an audiovisual self-regulation commission for the whole country. It will then go on to present the activities of Autocontrol, an independent association with responsibility for regulating the advertising industry. Finally, it will examine the challenges facing the Federation of Associations of Spanish Journalists (FAPE) and their self-regulation activities, particularly since 2011. In this year, FAPE promoted the creation of an independent foundation that would bring together various institutions to support the work of its arbitration, complaints and ethics commission.

Keywords: Spanish self-regulation bodies, self-regulation of commercial communication, audiovisual councils, Press Complaints Commission


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Note on the contributor

Mónica Codina is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Navarra in Spain. Her research interests are in the area of communication ethics and its philosophical roots. Her published papers include Justice as an axis of the professional ethical reasoning, New environments of communication: Social indicators of Neo-Renaissance culture, and Journalism for integration: The Muhammad cartoons, with Rodríguez-Virgili. Email: mcodina@unav.es.