Push to get all media signed up to press code

A push is on to get publishers of online news to sign up to a code of practice for handling complaints after the Press Council adjudicated on its first formal grievance arising from social media.

Press Council chairman, Daithí O’Ceallaigh, said the media landscape had changed dramatically since the Council was established but the same principles of accountability and redress should apply.

“In 2007 certainly many newspapers had associated websites. Today most of our member publications are in effect multi-platform publishers.