How effective is press regulation when it comes to accuracy?

by reporting watch team | Jun 24, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

We recently complained to The Daily Mail about an inaccurate article compounded by a particularly misleading headline which extracted a minor fact from a judgment that had potential to make an attention grabbing headline, and made it sound as if it was what the case...

Bob the builder – Mail : No we won’t!

by reporting watch team | Jun 21, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

We wrote recently about an article and headline in The Daily Mail that we thought was misleading. The article headlined a social worker’s criticism of a mother for leaving her child on a Bob The Builder toy car when he was too little for it – and overall...

Bob the Builder – Mail, please fix it!

by reporting watch team | Jun 6, 2018 | Cases, FCReportingWatch

The Daily Mail reported yesterday that a ‘Nurse’s one-year-old son is taken from her care after she let him sit in a Bob The Builder toy car that was ‘inappropriate’ for his age’. There are 1,200 comments on the article. What the heck? Do...

Achievement unlocked : Our experience of the IPSO process

by reporting watch team | Jul 30, 2017 | Cases, Court of Protection, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

The Independent Press Standards Organisation have recently published the “Resolution Statement” in respect of our complaint about an article by The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker regarding Court of Protection proceedings concerning the now deceased...

Correction Requests Update

by reporting watch team | Jun 18, 2017 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Notorious

We recently made a further complaint to The Telegraph about Christopher Booker’s coverage of the case of Re H (A Child) (Interim Care Order : fact finding) [2017] EWHC 518 (Fam) on 21 May (you can read the post about that complaint here). We have now heard back...