QC (Quis Custodiet), published at mediawatch.report, operates under the wider NewsX mission. It exists to hold unregulated, accountability-averse media to clear standards and offers a structured complaints and assessment route for people who feel they have been treated unjustly.

QC sits within NewsX CIC, which is a UK Community Interest Company (CIC) limited by guarantee (company no. 14370436). A CIC is a regulated community-benefit structure that must pass the UK Government Regulator’s community-interest test and is built around a compulsory “asset lock,” meaning the company’s assets (and any profits/surpluses) are intended to be used for the community purpose rather than private gain.

Simply put, “not for profit” organisations run like a real business to be sustainable, but reinvest any surplus above genuine operating costs back into the mission rather than extracting value for owners – which in the case of NewsX and QC is aimed at improving standards, tools, casework and support for independent journalism.

You can independently verify the structure and the ongoing accountability of NewsX. Its CIC status is shown on the public Companies House register, and CICs also file a community interest report alongside accounts that appears on the public record.

NewsX and Press Card holders voluntarily agree to be regulated by QC — meaning they accept a clear editorial code, transparent complaints handling, and fast correction where warranted. But QC isn’t limited to the NewsX ecosystem. It applies the same editorial standards to any piece of journalism, regardless of publisher, and is designed to offer quick, practical redress to people who have genuinely suffered from media bias or misleading presentation — without a long, expensive legal fight.