Head of Standards Charlotte Urwin on how our new guidance can help journalists and editors think through issues around the reporting of deaths

This week our Complaints Committee met to adjudicate on complaints. Three new members have recently been appointed: Nazir Afzal, former Chief Crown Prosecutor; Andrew Pettie, a former journalist; and Miranda Wiram, Head of Strategy and Insight at Forest Enterprise. In this week’s guest blog, Nazir Afzal gives his first impressions of being part of the Committee.

Director of External Affairs Niall Duffy on our outreach work around the world and talking about press regulation from Manila to Detroit.

Head of Standards Charlotte Urwin on new guidance for editors on due prominence and the fine balance of proportionate regulation.

Director of External Affairs Niall Duffy on IPSO's Belfast Roadshow.

AIPCE is a loose network of independent content regulators for both press and broadcast media. Its annual conferences provides a forum to exchange ideas and to offer and receive advice. It’s also an opportunity strengthen cooperation and communication between the various bodies which regulate the press across Europe.

In the first of a series of guest blogs, Fiona Fox, Chief Executive of the Science Media Centre, on how the media talks about science.

In this, my final blog for IPSO, I am making a call to arms. I am asking all those who believe that journalism is the handmaiden to democracy – all publishers, editors and journalists – to work together to preserve and enhance the journalistic mission.

Greenslade on how, now more than ever, journalists need the public on their side.

Bitterness between PRs and journalists has a lengthy history but sensible journalists understand that the majority of PRs are helpful and truthful, and that we depend on each other. But there cannot be dependence of any kind, no mutual benefits whatsoever, if the journalistic community goes on diminishing at its current rate.