Three senior media figures have been appointed to a new trust that will monitor the Press Association's output to ensure it meets with the principles that the agency has adopted for "fast, fair and accurate reporting."
John Bryant, who resigned as editor-in-chief of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph last year will be chairman while Peter Cole, professor of journalism at Sheffield, and and Philip Harding, formerly the director of English networks and news at the BBC world service wil serve as committee members.
PA Group explains that the trust "has been created as an additional safeguard for the news agency's editorial independence." It is expected to produce an annual report for and also act as a sounding board for the editorial team.
Bryant says: "The integrity and core values of the Press Association will be ever more important as PA Group moves to serve the growing and varied demands of its customers, both in print and electronically."
