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Independent Press Standards Organisation

Welcome to the website of IPSO. We are the independent regulator for the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK

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  • Latest news

    IPSO Global Digital Content Consultation

    IPSO has launched a public consultation on the way in which it regulates global news websites as part of its ongoing review of how IPSO’s regulations apply to global digital content.

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    Question an expert media panel in Glasgow

    Question a panel of experts on what its like to work in the media today. A must for budding journalists or anyone interested in how newspapers and magazines are regulated.

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    Have journalists become too far removed from ordinary people’s lives?

    Jon Snow, the Channel 4 News presenter, spoke of one of this era’s most fascinating divisions in his keynote speech at the Edinburgh International Television Festival last week. After reporting on the Grenfell Tower tragedy, he said it made him feel “on the wrong side” of Britain’s social divide. It convinced him that he, and the current cohort of mainstream media journalists, had become too far removed from ordinary people’s lives.

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What IPSO does

Regulates over 1500 print and 1100 online titles

Takes complaints about possible breaches of the Editors' Code of Practice

Help with unwanted press attention or harassment concerns

Guidance for editors and journalists

Advice about the Editors' Code

Journalists' Whistleblowing Hotline

Pilot arbitration scheme for legal claims against the press

Press standards

IPSO helps to uphold professional standards in journalism. We monitor our members' compliance with the Editors' Code, provide guidance and training, and can carry out standards investigations where we believe there have been serious and systemic breaches of the Code.

Annual statements 2016

Annual report 2016

Guidance

Global digital review consultation

Need advice?

IPSO staff members are available to assist and advise members of the public, complainants, editors and journalists. Please contact us on 0300 123 2220 or advice@ipso.co.uk

The Independent Press Standards Organisation C.I.C. is a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with registered number 02538908.

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