@article{8504474,
  abstract     = {{A recent decision of the European Court clarifies that journalistic freedom of expression does not encompass the right to insult and offend an interviewee during a radio interview, including a politician. It also confirms the competence of a media regulatory body to interfere with a journalist’s or a radio station’s freedom of expression in a proportionate way. In the case at issue Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the United Kingdom communications industries, had launched an investigation into a radio interview about which it received a series of complaints. Ofcom concluded that the broadcast had breached the Broadcasting Code, as it had amounted to gratuitous and offensive insult without contextual content or justification. No sanction or penalty was imposed either on the radio station or the journalist other than the publication of the decision by Ofcom}},
  author       = {{Voorhoof, Dirk}},
  issn         = {{2078-6158}},
  journal      = {{IRIS, LEGAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL OBSERVATORY}},
  keywords     = {{Interview,journalist,freedom of expression,insult,Ofcom,code of conduct,Article 10 ECHR,HRC}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{10}},
  pages        = {{1}},
  publisher    = {{European Audiovisual Observatory}},
  title        = {{European Court of Human Rights: Jon Gaunt v. UK}},
  url          = {{http://merlin.obs.coe.int/newsletter.php?year=2016&issue=10&id=15694}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}