The NewsCodes Working Group is happy to announce the August 2020 update to IPTC NewsCodes.

Here’s an overview of the changes in this release:

Namerole vocabulary changes

• Added “pseudonym” to namerole.

Media Topics vocabulary changes

Hierarchy changes:

• Fixed multi-parent bug on medtop:20000175 “buyback”, medtop:20000184 “restructuring and recapitalisation”, and medtop:20000186 “stock activity”, the bug was introduced in a previous GitHub merge.
• Moved medtop:20000179 “earnings forecast” to be under medtop:20000171 “business finance”.

Label and definition changes:

• Fixing spelling error “sufferring” in definition of medtop:20000819 “long term care”.
• Changes to labels and definitions for medtop:20000617 “upper house” and medtop:20000616 “lower house”.
• Changed definition of medtop:20000241 “real estate” to include renting.
• medtop:20000588 changed from “censorship” to “censorship and freedom of speech”.

New terms:

• medtop:20001290 “public housing”
• medtop:20001291 “heating and cooling”
• medtop:20001292 “economic development incentive”
• medtop:20001293 “streaming service”
• medtop:20001294 “crowdfunding”
• medtop:20001295 “outsourcing”
• medtop:20001296 “shopping mall”
• medtop:20001297 “shopping district and high street”
• medtop:20001298 “artificial intelligence”
• medtop:20001299 “surveillance”
• medtop:20001300 “privacy”

NewsCodes Guidelines changes

• Fix broken link and added FAQ about contributing suggestions.

As always, HTML browseable versions of the MediaTopics can be found at https://www.iptc.org/std/NewsCodes/treeview/mediatopic/mediatopic-en-GB.html and an Excel version at https://www.iptc.org/std/NewsCodes/IPTC-MediaTopic-NewsCodes.xlsx.

Thanks very much to our Working Group members and contributors, especially Ritzau in Denmark and Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia, for their suggestions and support.

Update on 16 September 2020: Chinese translations of new terms are now added.

Please note that the textual changes are currently available in the Danish (dk), Chinese (zh-Hans), English (en-GB), Portuguese (pt-PT and pt-BR for Brazil), Norwegian (no) and Swedish-language (se) versions. More translated versions of the MediaTopics NewsCodes will be made available when their maintainers have updated them.