The State-approved Press watchdog – set up to monitor newspaper accuracy – has been caught making false claims about its finances.
Impress, which is bankrolled by funding from the late Press reform campaigner Max Mosley, is supposed to enforce accuracy in the media.
But, amid scrutiny of its finances and the way it relies on Mosley's millions, it wrongly stated that it had received money from another source – a reputable Government grant-making body called the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The AHRC asked Impress more than two weeks ago to retract an announcement in its annual report saying that the Council was providing funding to the Press watchdog. Yet it was only when a journalist contacted Impress last week that it hurriedly issued a correction and an apology on Friday afternoon.
Impress, which is bankrolled by funding from the late Press reform campaigner Max Mosley, is supposed to enforce accuracy in the media
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The correction was slipped out on its website, but not the homepage, and failed to explain how the mistake had occurred.
Impress was set up in 2015 but no national newspapers are members. Most, including the Mail, are regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).
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