U.K. Newspapers Face Tougher Penalties

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By: Andrew Sparrow | The Guardian

The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said more agreement than expected had emerged on the "tougher" form of newspaper regulation that will emerge in the light of the phone-hacking scandal.

A new system would reject statutory regulation of press content while empowering an independent regulator to impose "credible punishment" on newspapers guilty of misconduct, Hunt said.































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