Sunday Life contributor wins Press Council ruling over editing of her copy

Commissioned expert contributors to magazine articles are entitled to redress via the Australian Press Council if their views are not properly reflected, a new ruling has demonstrated.

Sunday Life magazine – which is inserted in Fairfax Media’s Sun-Herald and Sunday Age – had a complaint upheld against it after homeopath Ana Lamaro said that her views on post natal depression were not fairly put.  

Her contribution came in Caitlin Chang’s “What’s the alternative?” column. According to the APC ruling:

Ms Lamaro complained to the Council that the column misquoted and misrepresented her. She had been shown a proposed draft and had agreed to some editing of the response to the question, which she had been commissioned by the column to provide. But the published version, which had not been checked with her, omitted further material that she regarded as of great importance to an accurate expression of her expert opinion and also added material from another source with which she did not agree.

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