언론의 피의자 신상 공개 요건에 대한 탐색적 접근

This study is not intended to resolve the controversy over the identity disclosure system of suspects or the media. Rather, it started with the awareness that anonymous reports, which are common in crime reports, enable inaccurate or sensational and provocative reports and act as a mechanism to avoid the responsibility of the media. Accordingly, the case of deliberation by the media self-regulatory organization, which is a guideline for disclosing the identity of the suspect, and the current status of recommendations for correction by the Media Arbitration Committee were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, the self-regulatory body and the Media Arbitration Committee believe that careful attention should be paid to processing related information and photos to prevent the identity of the suspect from being disclosed if he/she is not a public figure. In the end, disclosure of the suspect's identity depends on the sentence of public interest, and this public interest can be grasped through the identity of the suspect and the nature of the crime as a public concern. However, these results have shown that the deliberation cases have limitations in reducing and limiting the extent to which the media can autonomously disclose the suspect's identity by not considering the nature of the crime as a public concern. Based on the problems of the deliberation case and court precedents, the identity of the suspect and the nature of the crime were derived as requirements for the media to consider when judging the disclosure of the suspect's identity. The suspect's status was divided into a full-scale public figure, a limited public figure, and a cause of death, and the nature of the crime was classified into a serious crime with a high degree of harm, a serious crime with a non-crime in terms of politics, society, economy, and culture even if the seriousness of the issue falls below that, if it has importance to the public or has a connection with the public interest, as a public figure, if the implication is recognized, such as having importance to the public beyond the ordinary level as a general crime due to its connection to work or activity, cases that can be classified as other crimes and correspond to each area were presented. The behavior of incorrect crime reporting and the necessity of disclosing the suspect's identity should be examined separately. In particular, indiscriminate personal information leakage through the Internet and the disclosure of the suspect's identity in a responsible attitude should be distinguished. The media that has decided to disclose the suspect's identity should report it to the extent that it does not confirm the suspect through sufficient verification procedures. Of course, the media's requirements for considering the disclosure of the suspect's identity derived from this study cannot cover all issues and are not absolute. Nevertheless, it is expected that the media's ability to judge the value of news on its own and take responsibility for public reporting of personal information based on fact-checking will have better results in improving the quality of crime reporting in terms of freedom of the press.