Mistakes and Rulings

Digest of the latest newspaper and media legal settlements, regulatory rulings, corrections and mistakes.

If you spot a media mistake we have missed, and which others can learn from, please email: pged@pressgazette.co.uk.

Sun reporter visited parents of aid worker killed in Gaza before they knew of his death

A Sun reporter told John Chapman’s family: “I think he might have been involved in an incident.”

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BBC complaints unit assured “lessons have been learned” about breaking news coverage during shared programming.

By Charlotte Tobitt

MP Gavin Williamson previously complained to press regulator IPSO over similar Mail Online article.

By Charlotte Tobitt

Rare Clause 12 (discrimination) breach ruling from IPSO after Dawson said she was “deliberately misgendered”.

By Charlotte Tobitt

A statement by Matt Hancock on statins was found to have been used in a “misleading” way.

By Charlotte Tobitt

Impress this week published its second discrimination adjudication against the publisher this year.

By Bron Maher

Police held a background briefing about the killer of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley and Ian Coates.

By Charlotte Tobitt

Husband of Tory peer Michelle Mone behind tax avoidance scheme which led to suicides.

By Dominic Ponsford