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Alex Salmond calls on publishers to accept UK government's Royal Charter on press regulation

on Apr 24, 2014 | 0 comments

By Angela Haggerty

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has called on the press industry to agree to the Royal Charter’s proposal of a recognition panel on self regulation and said there’s no reason the structure can’t continue in an independent Scotland.

Addressing the inaugural Scottish Newspaper Society conference, Salmond said the UK government’s Royal Charter proposal had been unanimously passed by the Scottish parliament 12 months ago, although he welcomed the “progress” of the last 18 months and said the industry’s Independent Press standards organisation would go a “long way” to meeting the recommendations set out in the Leveson Report.

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Source: The Drum