Impress becomes first state-approved UK press regulator, gets nod from NUJ

Impress has become the first officially recognised UK press regulator after sealing approval from the government-funded Press Recognition Panel (PRP) today (25 October).
Most of Britain's national and regional newspaper and magazines have joined the regulator Ipso since it was set up in 2014, but press reform campaigners have slammed the body for its lack of independence, claiming it is controlled by the very newspapers it regulates.
Impress was established in the same year by Jonathan Heawood a