3. Risk assessment
In order for ‘A magazine’ to
be safe for my employees I
needed to perform a risk
assessment to ensure that
if there were any hazards I
knew how to prevent
anything happening.
4. Hazards at the Work Place
At the office of ‘A’ magazine, it is very important that we stick to health
and safety protocols during a hazard event. For example if there was a
fire, there would need to be a fully functioning fire exit at convenient
places so that no matter where in the building you are, there is always
a safe exit nearby. To ensure all staff know where these exits are, we
will perform monthly fire drills. A magazine also needs to ensure that
no tables and chairs have any flaws which could cause injury to the
staff.
5. Royalties is when a magazine has included some content which is copyrighted and
if another company includes any of this copyrighted content then the company
who have used it have to pay money to the original magazine.
• The NLA are a newspaper licensing company which sell copying licenses to
newspapers and magazine contents. They also ensure that all publishers get their
royalties.
Source: http://www.nlamediaaccess.com/default.aspx?tabid=126
Royalties
I would ensure that my magazine buys a copy writing license from the NLA as this
will ensure that my magazine has some extra protection. It will also ensure that if
anything gets copied from my magazine then I will be able to claim royalties on it.
6. Water Marking
Watermarking is a way of protecting your own
material. This is essential for magazines as they
pay a lot of money to get professional
photographs and to have them all published
within their magazine, therefore they would not
want people just using them either as their own
or without giving the magazine some credit.
7. Data protection - legal control over access to and use of data
stored in computers.
As an example of a breach of data protection, if a celebrity got
photographed at their front door with the house number and
name of road visible I the picture, this would be breaching
data protection as member of the public who would see this
image would then know where the celerity lived and they
would start to go to extreme measures such as stalking them.
Even printing of another persons date of birth is breaching
data protection.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection
Data protection act
9. Source: https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/advertising-codes.html
Advertisers can choose to self and co-regulate on a
voluntarily and paid for bases
Their purpose and strategy is to ensure every UK advert is a
responsible one.
Complaints can be made direct to ASA who publish their
findings to ensure a rigorous process is in place.
Committees of
Advertising practice
offer advice and
guidance as well as a
formal complaints
procedure
KFC advert received 755
complaints in 2017 making it the
most complained about advert
that year.
Advertising Standards Authority
10. The Editors’ Code of Practice sets out the rules that newspapers and magazines regulated by IPSO have agreed to
follow. The Code is written and administered by the Editors’ Code Committee The latest version of the Editors’ Code of
Practice was on the 1st January 2018. I will ensure that ‘A’ follows all of these codes to enable us to be a good magazine.
Accuracy - The Press must not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted
information/images. A significant inaccuracy, misleading statement or distortion
must be corrected promptly. where appropriate there should be an apology
published. The Press, should distinguish clearly between comment, conjecture
and fact so that there is no confusion.
Privacy - Everyone is entitled to respect private and family lives. It is unacceptable
to photograph individuals without their consent.
Harassment – Journalists must not engage in intimidation, harassment or
persistent pursuit. If journalists are requested, they must identify themselves and
what newspaper/magazine they represent.
Intrusion into grief or shock – with cases involving grief or shock, any enquiries
much be made with great sympathy and discretion. Publication should also be
handled sensitively.
Reporting suicide – Whenever there is a reporting of suicide, in order to prevent
simulative acts, lots of care should be taken to avoid excessive detail of the
method used, while also taking into account the media's right to report these
legal proceedings.
Source: https://www.ipso.co.uk/editors-code-of-practice/
Editors code of practice
11. Children - Children must not be approached or photographed at school without permission of the authorities of the school. If
under 16, children must not be interviewed/photographed on issues involving their own or another child’s welfare unless
their parent/guardian agrees.
Children in sex cases – under no circumstances should the press identify children under 16 who are victims or witnesses in
cases involving sex offences. In any press report involving a sexual offence against a child, the child must not be identified, the
adult is able to be identified. The word "incest" cannot be used where a child victim might be identified.
Hospitals – a journalist must identify themselves while also getting permission from an executive before entering any non-
public areas of hospitals (or similar institutions to pursue enquiries).
Reporting crime - Unless genuinely relevant to the story, relatives/friends of people being convicted/accused of crime should
not be identified without their consent. Unless a child's name is published, the editor should avoid identifying anyone under
the age of 16 unless there is consent from the parent/guardian.
Clandestine devices and subterfuge – the press must not publish or obtain information from secret cameras, listening devices
or intercepting phone calls, emails texts etc. without consent.
Victims of sexual assault – there must be no information or material published that could lead to the identification of a
victim.
Discrimination – details of someone's race, colour, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental illness or
disability must not be mentioned unless genuinely relevant to the story. The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative
reference to someone’s, race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or to any physical or mental illness or
disability.
Editors code of practice (continued)
12. Financial journalism - Journalists must not use for their own profit financial information they receive in advance of its general
publication, and they should not pass information onto others. They must not write about shares or securities in whose
performance they know that they or their close families have a significant financial interest without disclosing the interest to the
editor or financial editor. They must not buy or sell any shares or securities which they have written recently or intend to write
later on.
Confidential sources - Journalists have a moral obligation to protect confidential sources of information.
Witness payments in criminal trials – there should be no payment/offer to a witness or anyone considered to be a witness. If
there is a payment/offer made to someone who later then gives evidence, it must be disclosed to the prosecution and defence.
The witness must also be advised of this.
Payment to criminals – there should be no payment/offers for stories, pictures or information, which look to exploit a crime or to
glorify crime generally. Payment must not be made directly to the criminal, via agents to convicted/confessed criminals or to the
criminals associates, this includes family, friends and colleagues.
The public interest – The public interest includes, but is not confined to: Detecting or exposing crime, or the threat of crime,
or serious impropriety.
• Protecting public health or safety.
• Protecting the public from being misled by an action or statement of an individual or organisation.
• Disclosing a person or organisation’s failure or likely failure to comply with any obligation to which they are subject.
• Disclosing a miscarriage of justice.
• Raising or contributing to a matter of public debate, including serious cases of impropriety, unethical conduct or
incompetence concerning the public.
• Disclosing concealment, or likely concealment, of any of the above.
Editors code of practice (continued)
14. Conclusion
In LO2, I have discussed the hazards at the workplace and how I will
avoid these. I also have looked at ways of protecting my magazine such
as royalties and copy right. It is important to have these as then no one
else can take/copy anything from my magazine.
