The Editors' Code of Practice is the foundation stone of the UK press self-regulatory system.

It sets out the rules that the voluntarily subscribing newspaper and magazine industry members have pledged to accept.

It is by those self-imposed standards that newspapers and magazines can be held to account via the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), which regulates the large majority of the UK newspaper, magazine and digital news industry.

The Code is reviewed by the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee, which is composed of lay members and editors representing the national and regional newspaper and magazine industry.

Elsewhere on this site, you will find the current Code, and The Editors’ Codebook, the handbook that sets the Editors’ Code in context and highlights best practice and key rulings made by IPSO.

Meanwhile IPSO details, including how to complain about breaches of the Code, can be found at www.ipso.co.uk.

If you would like to suggest an amendment click here, or send it to:
Secretary of the Editors’ Code Committee, c/o News Media Association, c/o Crowe LLP, 2nd Floor, 55 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JW.