Regulation is a rule that has been set by a higher authority that must be followed. The media have certain regulations to stop them from showing explicit images and explicit, offensive, bias, manipulative and inappropriate articles. If there was no regulations for the press we would most likely see explicit images and explicit, offensive, bias, manipulative and inappropriate articles aimed at celebrities, the government and politicians. How ever if there was too much regulation the journalists wouldn’t be able to investigate stories thoroughly and expose frauds, corrupt leaders and politicians.

There are two types of regulation; self regulation and statutory regulation. Self regulation is where the company sets its own rules and regulations. Statutory regulation is where an outside body/authority place the rules and regulations on the company.

In 2005 the news of the world released an article stating that Prince William was borrowing a portable editing suite from ITV correspondent Tom Bradby. There were also some appointments that got leaked. After this the prince and Bradby concluded that the princes voice mails were being accessed. The police set up an investigation and searched Mulcaires home and found 11,000 pages of handwritten notes listing nearly 4,000 celebrities, politicians, sports stars, police officials and crime victims whose phones may have been hacked. The names included eight members of the royal family and their staff. There were dozens of notebooks, two computers containing 2,978 complete or partial mobile phone numbers and 91 PIN codes, plus 30 tape recordings made by Mulcaire. The notes were only on peoples personal life and not things that would help anyone. It was important because it triggered the Leverson Inquiry.

The Leverson Inquiry was a judicial inquiry following the phone hacking scandal it suggested a new, independent, body to replace the press complaints comission. It was done because there were no media laws stopping the news of the world from hacking celebrities and civilians phones allowing them to get personal information on them.

The two press regulators are IPSO and IMPRESS.

Editor-in-Chief job description:

An editor in chief is the big managerial position in charge of supervising all the jobs of publishing media. They lead the team of editors writers and other workers in charge of making original content for newspapers, magazines and other sources of media. They would also do the last fine check before the paper gets published.

Sub-editor job description:

A sub-editor would check the newspaper, magazine or website for grammar, spelling, house style and tone (informal, formal, chatty, serious) before it is published. They also check to see if the facts are accurate and suit the readers.

Advertising manager job description:

an advertising manager organises where the advert would go and what adverts will go there he would go and what adverts will go there he would also sell the spaces to companies and make sure all spaces are bought.

Journalist/reporter job description:

A journalist researches, writes, edits, proofreads and file news reports/stories, features and articles for television, radio, internet, magazines, newspapers and journals. they are usually set stories by the news paper editor.

photographer job description:

a photographer takes pictures of people, events, objects and scenes for news stories, art and magazines. most photographers are freelance and sell news papers their photos.

Dmg media is a national newspaper and website publisher in the UK. The parent company of DMG Media is DMGT (Daily Mail and General Trust). DMG Media was established in 1905 and is currently located down at Northcliffe House in Kensington. DMG Media owns: Daily Mail, Irish Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail Plus, Metro, Metro.co.uk, Mail Today and 7DAYS.

Publishing is the process of production and distribution of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view.

Publishing is all about different types of media such as social media, blogs like this one, websites, games, newspapers, books, events, leaflets and magazines which I will be creating at a later point in the future.

The traditional types of products to publish would be newspapers, magazines, books, events and leaflets, but now in the digital age the products that might be published are websites, blogs, games and social media.

Some examples of publishing companies are: DNG Media, Penguin Books, Conde Nast, IPC, Faber and Faber, MacMillan, Oxford and Cambridge.