Ethics and Legal impact on my Independent Proposal

Because I aim to be apart of both Web and Publishing. I believe that these regulatory bodies have an impact on your industry, they are Advertising Standards Authority, Ofcom, Press Complaints Commission and Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform. 

Ethical:

• representation of gender
• representation of religious beliefs
• linguistic usages ?
• accessibility ( I believe with a blog it's about being about to change the font size and having pictures with text on for the blind.)
• professional body codes of practice eg BBC producers’ guidelines,?
• Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) accessibility standards http://www.w3.org/

Legal:

• Official Secrets Act 1989;
• Obscene Publications Act 1959 (and later amendments);
• Films Act 1985, (if I post a vlog on the blog);
• Video Recordings Act 1984,  (if I post a vlog on the blog);
• Race Relations Act 1976 (and later amendments);
• Human Rights Act 1998;
• Licensing Act 2003 (and later amendments);
• privacy law;
• copyright and intellectual property law;
• libel law

As a part of having both a mix of journalism and photography on my blog, I will have to be careful of both ethical and legal issues as both photog and hack. As well as this I also need to understand the regulations that a journalist is subject to upholding. 

Ethically for photography I shouldn't borrow images without permission of the original owner and I should after using their image or photograph as part of a project or photography series I should credit them and re-link them. 
There is also the ethical issue of over editing an image of a model so that their  body is warped into an ideal of the male or female form that isn't achievable because of the amount of post production to change the image from the original. This has an effect on children and young people as the believe that this is what people can and should look like.  Photojournalism and cropping

Ethically for Journalism, is a grey area there are certain things that can in the interest in the public be persuaded unethically, however this can be misused when journalists go through peoples voicemail's and emails to find a story. 

I should not be using peoples quotes as if it was my own writing or writing as if I was there when using secondary sources. I must avoid facilitating discrimination of any kind as this can lead to demonisation of a particular group. If I am covering and event or story that is breaking on a social media site I need to make sure that I am accurate over keeping up with the speed of potential false rumours. 

I also need to make sure that I am transparent with information from other sources, attributing them as well as a link back in the text, so that the reader can go to the other source to gain a background on what your talking about.  

I should also not just rehash or 'churnalism' of someone else work or of a press release and  not conduct any background checking, finding a new or different angle or adding any value to the piece. 

I need to be able to admit when there are errors in my work whether it be a small spelling mistake or something more. Then to be able to publicly acknowledge my mistake, either on the blog piece where it occurred or separately (i.e. in a newspaper/magazine either the next day or the next issue). 

Ethically I should never feed the trolls. 

On the legal side of photography I should never take photographs of children under sixteen without their parents consent.  Pap - images over a persons life  and invasion of piracy

For Journalism - Libel.  Hacking. Not crediting a quote. Writing as if you were there when using secondary sources.