Jonathan Heawood







Regulating ethics: A way forward for charitable journalism

In this paper, I review the decision of the English Charity Tribunal to grant charitable status to the Independent Press Regulation Trust and argue that, by recognising the existence of a distinct body of journalism ethics, the tribunal has opened a way forward for charitable journalism

Keywords: regulation, ethics, charitable journalism, Charity Tribunal, Independent Press Regulation Trust


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Note on the contributor

Jonathan Heawood is Chief Executive Officer of IMPRESS and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Writing and Rights, University of East Anglia. He co-chaired the Advisory Group on Journalism and Charitable Status and gave evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in his capacity as Director of English PEN. Recent publications include Censorship, The encyclopedia of twentieth-century fiction, Oxford, Blackwell, 2011; Taking offence: Free speech, blasphemy and the media, Mitchell, Jolyon and Gower, Owen (eds) Religion and the news, Farnham, Ashgate, 2012; Writerly rights: Free speech, privacy and H. G. Wells, Critical Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2014; and Independent and effective? The post-Leveson framework for press regulation, Journal of Media Law, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2015.