Recommendation L87: Plurality Measurement Framework
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
Ofcom and the Government should work, with the industry, on the measurement framework, in order to achieve as great a measure of consensus as is possible on the theory of how media plurality should be measured before the measuring system is deployed, with all the likely commercial tensions that will emerge.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry recommended creating a media plurality measurement framework in consultation with industry. In November 2015, Ofcom advised the Secretary of State that, following a request to develop indicators in consultation with industry, it had published a call for inputs in October 2014 and consulted on a draft framework in March 2015 (Ofcom, Nov 2015). Earlier, in August 2014, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport stated that it would commission the regulator to develop suitable indicators in consultation with the industry (Department for Culture, Media and Sport response, Aug 2014).
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Government response
Having set this as the broad scope for the measurement framework, the Government will now look to commission Ofcom to develop a set of suitable indicators, in consultation with industry.
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Scope of the government response
PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.
Delivery
Ofcom says in progress (5 November 2015)
1.11 In November 2012 the Leveson Inquiry published its report. As part of its work it considered the measurement of media plurality. While the report was supportive of our initial measurement framework it recommended that Ofcom and Government should work with industry to ensure as much consensus as was possible was reached ahead of the deployment of any measurement system. 1.12 In June 2013, Government consulted on the measurement framework and in August 2014, it set out its conclusions on the scope and objectives of a measurement framework. How we have developed our advice 1.13 In September 2014, the Secretary of State asked Ofcom to carry out work on a suitable set of indicators to inform a measurement framework for media plurality. The scope and objectives of this framework were set out in the request. 1.14 The request indicated that the purpose of the framework was to allow the first ever baseline assessment of media plurality in the UK. It was also specified that the framework should be developed in consultation with industry. 1.15 We published a Call for Inputs in October 2014 and followed this with a consultation on a draft framework in March 2015.
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- UK Government
Response - Ofcom
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