The Press Standards Board of Finance (Pressbof) was set up by the Press Council to raise a levy on the newspaper and periodical industries to finance the Council, which had previously been funded directly by newspaper proprietors. Pressbof later funded the

Press Complaints Commission The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) was a voluntary regulatory body for British printed newspapers and magazines, consisting of representatives of the major publishers. The PCC closed on Monday 8 September 2014, and was replaced by the Inde ...

. This arrangement was intended to ensure secure and independent financial support for effective self-regulation. Pressbof ceased to actively operate following the abolition of the Press Complaints Commission in 2014, and it was dissolved in August 2016.

Final membership

* Chairman:

Lord Black of Brentwood Guy Vaughan Black, Baron Black of Brentwood (born 6 August 1964) was executive director of the Telegraph Media Group from 2005 to 2018 and since 2018 has been Deputy Chairman of the Group. He is a Conservative life peer member of the House of ...

, Executive Director of the

Telegraph Media Group Telegraph Media Group Limited (TMG; previously the Telegraph Group) is the proprietor of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph''. It is a subsidiary of Press Holdings. David and Frederick Barclay acquired the group on 30 July 2004, ...

. * Secretary & Treasurer: Jim Raeburn, director of the Scottish Newspaper Publishers Association 1984-2007 * Clive Milner, Chairman,

Newspaper Publishers Association The News Media Association is a trade body which styles itself as "the voice of national, regional and local news media organisations in the UK". It was created in 2014 by a merger between the Newspaper Society and the Newspaper Publishers' Associat ...

* Robin Burgess, Chief Executive, Cumbrian Newspapers Group Ltd * David Newell, Director, The Newspaper Society * Nicholas Coleridge, Managing Director,

Conde Nast Publications Conde may refer to: Places United States * Conde, South Dakota, a city France * Condé-sur-l'Escaut (or simply 'Condé'), a commune Linguistic ''Conde'' is the Ibero-Romance form of "count" (Latin ''comitatus''). It may refer to: * Count ...

(UK) * Barry McIlheney, Chief Executive,

Professional Publishers Association The Professional Publishers Association (PPA), formerly known as the Periodical Publishers Association until 2011, is the main publishing industry body which promotes companies involved in the production of media, supporting the creative economy at ...

* Paul Dacre, Editor in Chief,

Associated Newspapers DMG Media (stylised in lowercase) is an intermediate holding company for Associated Newspapers, Northcliffe Media, Harmsworth Printing, Harmsworth Media and other subsidiaries of Daily Mail and General Trust. It is based at Northcliffe House in ...

plc * John Fry, Chief Executive, Johnston Press plc * Paul Vickers, Secretary and Group Legal Director, Trinity Mirror plc

External links

PCC: Press Standards Board of Finance

References

{{Reflist Mass media complaints authorities