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editorial standards and compliance. It also undertakes monitoring work, including by requiring publications to submit annual compliance reports. IPSO has the power, where necessary, to require the publication of prominent corrections and critical adjudications, and may ultimately fine publications in cases where failings are particularly serious and systemic.
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campaign group described IPSO as a "sham" and "the illusion of reform". Hacked Off state that IPSO is "owned and controlled by the very newspapers it is supposed to regulate", and it "does nothing to stop them. Its code says papers must not publish inaccurate material, but it has neither the will nor
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National Union of Journalists said that journalists “still have little or no protection from editors seeking saleable stories regardless of ethical considerations”. In 2016 the NUJ announced that it was backing the regulator IMPRESS, as it believed “it represents the best opportunity we have for
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Editors' Code deals with issues such as accuracy, invasion of privacy, intrusion into grief or shock and harassment. IPSO considers concerns about editorial content in newspapers and magazines, and about the conduct of journalists. IPSO handles complaints and conducts its own investigations into
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the power to enforce this and never takes action to deal with repeated and systematic breaches of the code". Hacked Off argue that IPSO should be replaced by a properly independent regulator as called for by the
Leveson Report. In 2021, Hacked Off criticised IPSO's handling of complaints against
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was created on 3 November 2014 as a fully independent body with the purpose of carrying out activities in relation to the recognition of press regulators. IPSO has said that it will not seek approval from the
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independent press regulation” and it provided an alternative “to those national newspapers and their publishers who continue to fail to take their responsibilities seriously”.
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