IRELAND
The Irish Times
RONAN McGREEVY
GUIDELINES: RTÉ STAFF involved in major investigative programmes will have to make a detailed submission to a new editorial board before transmission.
The board will evaluate programmes similar to the Prime Time Investigates: Mission to Prey programme at least seven days in advance of being broadcast.
The five members of the board are Michael Good, the managing editor of RTÉ News; Jim Jennings, the head of RTÉ Radio 1; Steve Carson, the director of programmes at RTÉ Television; Eleanor Bleahene from RTÉ’s solicitor’s office and Peter Feeney, the head of broadcast compliance.
They will be asked to assess the quality of the report, the reliability of the evidence assembled and whether or not the programme is in the public interest.
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