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The Editors' Code of Practice, under which the clear majority of Britain’s newspaper, magazine and news website journalists operate, was reviewed in 2017, and changes to it became effective from 1 January 2018. The Code is regarded as the “cornerstone” of the UK press self-regulatory system. Its rules, which are framed by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, set standards that the voluntarily subscribing industry members have agreed to maintain. Editors and publishers can be held to account via the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which became the new regulatory body for the...

According to a decision issued by the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor, American TV broadcaster CNN International infringed Russian laws through its reporting. The authority did not initially reveal any further details of the alleged offences. The regulatory body announced that a review of CNN International’s programmes broadcast in the Russian Federation had shown that it had breached Russian mass media legislation and was liable under Russian administrative law. Roskomnadzor has therefore summoned representatives of the broadcaster to a hearing at which further information would be given....

The Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) has decided to restrict the free reception of the Russian television channel TVCI, the international version of Russian channel TVC, for six months. The LRTK considered that in June of this year, TVCI had broadcast content that incited war and hatred during the programme “The Right to Know”, in which Russia’s views on foreign policy issues had been expressed. At a hearing held by the LRTK before it issued its decision, the Russian channel’s Director of Development, Alexei Guscin, had spoken on the broadcaster’s behalf, categorically denying...

The plenary of the Supreme Court decided that amendments to the law on RIK - the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation -, L. Chapter 300A, were in breach of Article 28 (equality before the law) of the Constitution of Cyprus. The amendments subject the operation of new channels to the condition that the economic viability of existing audiovisual media service organisations would not be threatened, and further prohibit the inclusion of advertising and commercial announcements addressed to the territory of the Republic of Cyprus in re-transmitted broadcasts from other EU or third countries. The Court decided...

Provisions of the Law on Radio and Television Organisations of 2016 violate Articles 49 and 56 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and they do not come under any allowed exception. The law is in conflict with European Law, which is superior to the Constitution of Cyprus, decided the plenary of the Supreme Court on a reference by the President of the Republic. The decision followed an intermediary verdict in which the Supreme Court rejected an application by the House of Representatives that the case be referred directly to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)...