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Definition of "news"

A Freedom of Information request to Office of Communications by Fion Cook

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Fion Cook

27 October 2008

Dear Sir or Madam,

could i ask OFCOM to define and summarise it's own legal definition
of the word "news".

Yours faithfully,

Fion Cook

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Eleanor Burke
Office of Communications

17 November 2008


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Dear Ms Fion Cook,

Please see attached correspondence.

Kind regards,
Eleanor Burke

:: Eleanor Burke
Administration Officer
Content & Standards
Tel: 020 7981 3687
Fax: 020 7981 3806
email: [email address]

:: Ofcom
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
020 7981 3000
www.ofcom.org.uk<blocked::http://www.ofcom.org.uk/>

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Fion Cook left an annotation (25 November 2008)

Although my response was upheld, with the information requested received, it surprised me greatly that the definition is absent of requirements for factual basis as a determinant of the definition of news.

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