By Angela Haggerty

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has named Appeal Court judge Sir Alan Moses as the new press regulatory body’s first Chair.

Moses, said to once have thrown a pile of newspapers across a courtroom in anger over press coverage when he presided over the Soham murders trial, will now join the selection panel which appointed him and set about choosing the 12-person Ipso panel ahead of its official launch in June.

The press regulator, which will replace the criticised Press Complaints Commission (PCC), is backed by almost all of the national newspaper publishers and is opposed to the government’s Royal Charter Read full story ›

Source: The Drum