Updated Media Code of Conduct for polls signed

Media owners and managers yesterday signed on to a Media Code of Conduct (MCC) which covers a broad range of issues on how they report stories, carry political advertisements and their general conduct during the upcoming elections.

The MCC, which was crafted in 2006 and then modified in 2011, went through further modification over a two-day period this week during a forum at the Georgetown Club where media owners and managers went through the 11-page document and came up with a few changes.

The forum, which was led by Dr Paloma Mohamed, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the