Hacked Off urges press standards head to condemn Robin Williams newspaper coverage
Hacked Off has called for Sir Alan Moses, the head of the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), to condemn “much of today’s” Robin Williams suicide coverage after the group accused several publications of breaching the Editors’ Code.
The campaign group said Sir Alan Moses should send a message to newspapers which it believed had covered Williams’ death poorly, including the Star, the Mirror, the Metro, the Sun and Daily Mail, in a bid to raise media standards.
The statement comes after mental health charity ‘Mind’ complained that several newspapers ignored information it gave them on how to report the suicide responsibly and Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
