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December 13, 2011

PCC chairman Lord Hunt tell local reporters of plans for separate standards body

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New PCC chairman Lord Hunt has told local journalists at Newsquest’s South London Guardian series that he favours the creation of a separate standards body to sit alongside a PCC-style organisation with a complaints and investigation function.

The new body would deal with broader problems of media conduct and standards which were not directly referred to the PCC.

Hunt made the comments on a visit to Newsquest’s office in Sutton yesterday to discuss journalists’ views on media regulation.

He told them:

There should be a new body with two key roles; complaints and standards

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He added:

There must be the standards to which everyone adheres that must be continually tested.

Hunt also reiterated comments made in an interview with the Liverpool Echo last month, telling journalists: ‘I don’t think in my 35 years in Parliament I personally came across any instance where anyone working in the regional press fell below the highest standards.”

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