MediaGuardian: Alan Rusbridger resigns from PCC code committee
Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, has resigned from the Press Complaint Commission’s code committee, MediaGuardian reports.
His decision follows the PCC’s criticism of the way the Guardian had handled new allegations about past phone hacking at News of the World.
The PCC last week said it had found no new evidence further to its 2007 enquiry, a report which the Guardian, reporter Nick Davies and the Media Standards Trust strongly challenged.
On Sunday, the self-regulatory body’s chair Lady Peta Buscombe, cited police lawyers’ claims that a Metropolitan Police detective inspector had been ‘wrongly quoted’ in phone hacking evidence given to the House of Commons.
In response, the lawyer who gave the oral evidence, Mark Lewis, called for Buscombe’s resignation.
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