by David Prior
Former Liverpool Echo editor Alastair Machray has joined the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), the independent regulator for the UK s newspaper and magazine industry.
Machray edited the Echo between 2005 and 2020, leaving late last year in a senior management reshuffle by Reach.
He joins IPSO s Complaints Committee as an editorial member.
Machray, who also edited the Liverpool Daily Post and Welsh Daily Post in a career that began in 1979, was appointed an MBE for services to local journalism in the Queen’s Birthday honours last year.
Machray said: I am passionate about a free, yet responsible, press. IPSO is, I believe, the way to ensure and sustain that.