10 years of regulated journalism: IPSO publishes its Annual Report 2024

The report contains highlights of IPSO’s key milestones from its first ten years, as well as new developments from 2024.

The report looks back at IPSO’s achievements including the development of editorial guidance on reporting major incidents, sex and gender identity, reporting on suicide, and protecting victims of press intrusion, the establishment of IPSO arbitration, the development of the IPSO Mark, the publication of the Covid Report, and IPSO’s handling of its highest-profile complaints.

Lord Faulks, Chair of IPSO, said:

“IPSO’s Annual Report 2024 is a chance to look back at ten years of our history. It provides a snapshot of our key achievements and shows how IPSO is alive to the challenges of press regulation.

“Over the decade, IPSO has, applied the terms of the Editors’ Code in a way that is consistent yet also takes into account the changing social, technological and financial context in which journalism is being done – meeting the challenge set by Sir Brian Leveson in his 2012 report.

“This report also highlights our ongoing efforts to improve, to streamline our processes and ways of working. We will continue to drive up standards across the industry – a process that demonstrates to the public the value of regulated, accountable news over unregulated content.”

IPSO Chief Executive Charlotte Dewar added:

“The annual report sets out how in 2024 regulated publishers agreed to a new funding settlement, renewing publishers’ commitment to the independent system of regulation overseen by IPSO. We launched a new website and new look, and we marked IPSO’s first decade with a conference that considered issues of editorial relevance: on artificial intelligence, reporting on children, and misinformation and trust.”

In 2024, IPSO received 6,655 complaints and enquiries. The report includes a breakdown of the most complained-about titles and notable case studies of Complaints Committee rulings from 2024.

To read the full report, visit: www.ipso.co.uk/annualreport24

• IPSO has published 17 formal pieces of guidance for journalists on editorial standards issues, 12 information sheets for the public on issues
• IPSO has trained more than 1200 journalists in the last five years
• IPSO regulates more than 1800 titles produced by 100 publishers
• This includes 95% of national daily newspapers (by circulation) and most local and regional newspapers, including online versions
• Over its first decade, IPSO handled over 165,000 complaints and issued more than 500 privacy notices
• Read the IPSO annual report for 2024 here.