Digital and Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has said a new online regulator, proposed by the Government in a White Paper this week, would not duplicate the work of existing press regulators.

Proposed new legislation would impose a statutory “duty of care” on firms that “allow users to share or discover user-generated content or interact with each other online”, overseen by the regulator.

“Journalistic or editorial content will not be affected by the regulatory framework,” Wright said today in a letter of reply to Society of Editors executive director Ian Murray.