The press watchdog has issued new guidance for editors on publishing corrections in print.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has created the guidelines to help journalists on where corrections, clarifications, and adjudications should be placed in newspapers.

IPSO’s Editors’ Code of Practice states that corrections to significant inaccuracies must be published “with due prominence”, and the guidance seeks to explain what that means.

Further advice will be released on online due prominence next year.

In an accompanying statement, IPSO said: “The guidance seeks to describe the meaning of ”due prominence” as well as explain how IPSO determines the due prominence of a correction or adjudication when it is required by IPSO as part of a finding against a publication.

“Decisions about due prominence are highly specific to the individual circumstances of each case.

“In this guidance, IPSO sets out the principles that guide our general approach to deciding the prominence of a correction, but it is not prescriptive.

“To help illustrate this point, a variety of case studies have been included to showcase how the context of an article can affect any corrections or adjudications that arise as a result of its publication.”

The guidance can be read in full here.