LO4: IPSO AND W3C regulation

In writing my article I was very mindful of IPSO and W3C regulatory bodies, alike many other medias, journalism has to be mediated by regulatory bodies to ensure that all content is suitable for readers.
IPSO is the main regulatory body for journalism, they have an editors code that I took into account whilst writing my article, this means that no information written can be harmful or offensive, this I didn't find a major problem whilst writing my article due to the subject not being very controversial in terms of people involved and its a problem that affects everyone no matter what race, colour or ethnicity.

Alongside making sure that the content of the article wasn't offensive or harmful I also had to look at making sure that all secondary sources that were used were cross reference and were checked to make sure that the information was valid, this was incredibly important to make sure that I want misleading in my article.
This is especially important when speaking about major companies, in my article I touched on supermarkets, this meant that I had to have very secure data to ensure that I wasn't causing libel against any of these companies.

Due to technical convergence, many major news outlets now have online websites where the majority of their articles are posted this means that my article would probably be posted on an online source rather than printed therefore I would also have to look at W3C as a regulatory board due to them regulating online content.
To follow W3C's guidelines I would have to ensure that it was accessible for a range of audiences e.g I had translations available for people of different nationalities and that I had a range of formats for it to reviewed in to enable people who perhaps had impaired sight or difficulty reading could access the article.