• Introduction
• Chairman's perspective
• Public representatives
• Complainants
• Professional representatives
• Newspapers and magazines
• The Press Complaints Commission
• Constructive critics
• International perspective
• Historical perspective
• Robert Pinker - CBE
• Putting it into perspective

Historical perspective

Professor Robert Pinker CBE has a long association with the PCC, having served as a public Commissioner and then as Acting Chairman between February 2002 and April 2003. He has lectured extensively about the PCC both in the UK and abroad, and helped to establish the Press Council of Bosnia-Herzegovina, serving as its International Chairman for three years. In his academic career, he held professorial appointments at Goldsmiths College, Chelsea College and the London School of Economics. As the PCC marks its 20th anniversary in 2011, he looks back over the development of the organisation and assesses the challenges it faces as it looks to the future.