The Ontario Press Council received 100 complaints in 2007, down from 120 in 2006 and 106 in 2005 and well below the record 169 in 1992.

Eleven complaints were either adjudicated in 2007 or scheduled for adjudication in 2008. Of the nine complaints adjudicated during the year, six were upheld and three were dismissed, one with a reservation.

Thirty percent of the complaints were redressed by newspapers to the satisfaction of complainants, up from 25 per cent in 2006.

Editorials, columns, other articles of opinion, cartoons, letters to the editor and newspaper conduct and practice were the subjects of 75 complaints, up from 71 in 2006. Five of the eight that were adjudicated were upheld.

Of 21 complaints about news stories, 11 involved articles described as erroneous, misleading, incomplete or unbalanced. The one complaint that went to adjudication was upheld.

From its inception in 1972 to the end of 2007, the Council adjudicated 524 complaints, upholding all or part of 260 and dismissing 254, some with reservations. Two complaints were withdrawn after hearings and no decision was reached in the remaining eight.

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