Former Liverpool Echo editor joins press regulator
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 passio...