The editor is Carole Dennett (the former partner and parliamentary assistant of the island's previous MP, Andrew Turner).
Since 2019, it has operated through the company IW Observer Ltd, of which Miss Dennett is listed as the sole director.
[2] Prior to this, it operated through the company Isle of Wight Observer Ltd, which had Martin Potter as a director alongside her.
In its ruling, IPSO said that the stories carried by the paper covered matters of “significant public interest” and constituted “legitimate comment.”[7][8] There was a title of the same name which was a regional newspaper based in Ryde.
[10] It was founded by Ebenezer Hartnall in December 1845; but on 27 June 1846, after thirty issues had been published, he ceased publication, perhaps due to a combination of low sales, stamp duty and the tax on advertisements.