'Why should newspapers not be accountable?'

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Guardian readers’ editor role, the incumbent asked his three predecessors to recall their time in the post. Ian Mayes was the first
I became the Guardian’s, and the UK’s, first readers’ editor, or resident ombudsman, on 5 November – fireworks night – 1997.There had been attempts at various forms of self-regulation in the past but nothing quite like this. Continue reading...