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IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) is the regulator of most newspapers, magazines and digital news media in the UK. IPSO regulates 100 publishers with more than 1,800 titles, including most national and almost all local newspapers, and most...

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Tina Irving
This company likes to support discrimination and bullying of journalists, allow untrue and derogator

This company likes to support discrimination and bullying of journalists, allow untrue and derogatory material on web sites such as the Belfast Telegraph which is out of date and only serves the organisation behind the removal of this journalist from Northern Ireland to allow them to present themselves as a reputable organisation, which they are not. That organisation is Radius Housing Association. The material was published on 27 January 2022.

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Date of experience: Apr 03, 2026
Tina Irving
Derogatory and untrue article

This company likes to support discrimination and bullying of journalists, allow untrue and derogatory material on web sites such as the Belfast Telegraph which is out of date and only serves the organisation behind the removal of this journalist from Northern Ireland to allow them to present themselves as a reputable organisation, which they are not. That organisation is Radius Housing Association. The material was published on 27 January 2022.

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Date of experience: Mar 29, 2026
Landon
Abundantly clear they had 0 intention…

Abundantly clear they had 0 intention of helping me. They suffered an ‘administrative error’ which we all know means human error and ignored me for months and when they did respond it was essentially to tell me to f off. My complaint was against the Telegraph who wrote a very cruel factually incorrect article (thanks Katie Morley) which made me self harm. Ipso patronised me, laughed at me and were wholly unsympathetic. They told me an independent body of 12 people unrelated to the media would review my complaint then had a volte face and decided not to. When I called them and expressed how upset I was, they advocated I call 999 which is wasting emergency services time.

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Date of experience: Jul 23, 2023
Shaun Lewis
Not a single complaint upheld in their…

Not a single complaint upheld in their entire existence yet their main staff guy sits on Twitter showing off pictures of himself baking scones on a big farm. Tory failed regulation. Needs to be abolished and started anew in a different format.

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Date of experience: Jun 19, 2023
Nicki L.
Unsupportive in racism/discrimination cases

IPSO refused to assist in my case on the grounds their policy does not cover racial discrimination/prejudice, a joke of an organisation. Think IPSO needs to be dismantled for all the good they do.

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Date of experience: Sep 08, 2022
Sophia
In bed with the enemy!

In bed with the enemy!Never ending sensationalised clickbait Everywhere!The next few months newspapers will speculate on any & every "possible" football transfer & maybe 5% of them will actually be accurate. Any real Criticism of the government will be labelled fake news... All thanks to this corrupted organisation! Don't want to loose funding now do they?

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Date of experience: Jun 15, 2022
Lila Powell
They consistently fail to safeguard the…

They consistently fail to safeguard the public and enable harassment from desperate tabloid hacks like the M.E.N and Echo staff.

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Date of experience: Apr 28, 2022
Tanner
Disgusting

I was horrified, in completing IPSO's complaint form in order to complain about a well-known tabloid's story, to read that my contact details (including my address?!) could be passed to the newspaper. I concur with the other negative reviews here: IPSO appears to be bullying people out of complaining in the first place. When one considers that the paper in question has a history of bullying those who stand up to it, the only reasonable conclusion to draw is that in reality this 'watchdog' colludes with the newspapers it is supposed to regulate, in order to make it as difficult or risky as possible for decent people to bring reasonable complaints.

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Date of experience: Apr 25, 2022
nodibo
Doesn't investigate any complaints…

Doesn't investigate any complaints which go against the evil corrupt government and their media paymasters.

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Date of experience: Feb 08, 2022
Marvin Long
Yet Another Fake Regulator

Another supposed regulator which from start to finish is set up to block justified complaints about the press.With IPSO first you will discover that the newspaper may very well not respond to a direct complaint by you. This is because they know IPSO will protect them and because it saves them the time and money of replying to you and dealing with it themselves. But they all allegedly claim to comply with the Editors' Code but they do not.IPSO uses all sorts of techniques to get you to drop the complaint. This can include bullying and threats and abusive treatment of you. They all the time behave as if they are doing nothing wrong and their emails seem to be eminently reasonable, until you start to think about the implications.They take advantage of your lack of knowledge of their procedures.They make up reasons - regardless of how inappropriate - why your complaint is not valid or why the newspaper has not failed to comply with the Code.It is a battle every step of the way. If you manage to get to nearly the final stage, IPSO will try to blackmail you into withdrawing your complaint by insisting your name is published with the complaint even if your name has nothing to do with the news story, there is no justification for it and you might be caused harm if your name is published. In short, IPSO has no problem breaching your privacy - which is a legal right of yours.IPSO in this reviewer's opinion is very much as bad as the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman [PHSO] - which also in this reviewer's opinion demonstrates how poor Members of Parliament are in that they allow such organisations to operate and in the case of PHSO - to be paid out of public funds. None of them do anything about it. The public are right to be concerned about the scale of corruption throughout all levels of goverment and supposed regulatory bodies but MPs behave as if the problems do not exist. And then they complain that the public do not trust them, government, the police or any other kind of government type representative.IPSO pay a Member of the House of Lords to be their Chairman who is also a judge, barrister and Queen's Counsel taking £140,000 per annum to make IPSO look like it is a genuine press regulator with an air of respectability.You are much better off suing the newspaper under the county court small claims procedure for data protection breaches and breach of contract.If you make a complaint which the newspaper does not respond to and there is a breach of the Editor's Code, you can sue the newspaper in the small claims court for breach of its contract with you to comply with the Editors' Code. You can claim the time you have spent dealing with it [good for the self-employed] and any other damage suffered from not having the matter put right. Plus you also get a judge deciding whether your complaint was justified. You have to keep your claim to below the small claims limit [currently £10,000]. If you do that you should qualify for the small claims court and not be liable for legal costs if you lose - provided you do not behave unreasonably.You can also sue IPSO for breach of contract in the same way.

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Date of experience: Jan 15, 2022

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  • IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) is the regulator of most newspapers, magazines and digital news media in the UK.

    IPSO regulates 100 publishers with more than 1,800 titles, including most national and almost all local newspapers, and most large magazine publishers.

    We have dealt with more than 160,000 complaints and enquiries over the last decade. We have issued more than 500 confidential privacy notices to protect people concerned about press intrusion.

    In contrast to unregulated and unchecked online content, regulation by IPSO sets its member publishers apart because they are accountable for their content and the behaviour of their journalists.

    What we do:

    We make sure that regulated newspapers, magazines, and digital news channels follow the Editors’ Code of Practice – the framework we use to regulate the press.

    We handle complaints about editorial content and the behaviour of journalists.

    We provide guidance and training to publishers and journalists.

    We make sure that corrections and adjudications are published when necessary.

    We monitor press standards and have powers to investigate serious and systemic standards failings.

    We operate a 24-hour anti-harassment advice line.

    We run a low-cost arbitration scheme to settle legal disputes.

    We provide a whistleblowing service for journalists.

    We work with other organisations to support and improve press standards.See more

  • email inquiries@ipso.co.uk
  • call 03001232220
  • language https://www.ipso.co.uk

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