Democracy, media and (cyber) ombudsmen
Former ONO president and Guardian Readers Editor Ian Mayes spoke at a national round table for Turkey in Istanbul on Sept. 21, 2010, part of a regional program for media in south-east Europe financed...
View ArticleOmbudsman mandate review launched
CBC/Radio-Canada have launched a review of the mandate for their ombudsmen. The review follows last year’s update of CBC Journalistic Standards and Practices and deals specifically with the role of the...
View ArticleONO-president Jacob Mollerup’s address to The World Newspaper Congress and...
ONO-president Jacob Mollerup’s address to The World Newspaper Congress and The World Editors Forum in Vienna on October 15th, 2011. The 2011 World Newspaper Congress and The Worlds Editors Forum in...
View ArticleDefensores del público en la prense LatinoAmericana: Un trabajo complejo que...
Introduction: Prof. Flavia Pauwels of the University of Buenos Aires is a scholar of ombudsmanship in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Here is her scholarly assessment of the growth of the...
View ArticlePress councils’ choice: make big changes, or fade to black
Press councils across Canada are declining because they lack relevance, credibility and money, writes Brian Gabrial. Yet the need for a watchdog over journalism's ethics has never been greater, and...
View ArticleFunny kind of name: Ombudsman
Ombudsman Alicia Shepard has been at NPR since 2007. She serves as a public representative to NPR’s listeners in matters of ethics, accuracy and bias in reporting. One of NPR’s summer interns,...
View ArticleKeeping Tabs on the Times
Part journalistic Renaissance man, part regular guy, former reporter, columnist, editor, publisher and corporate executive, Arthur Brisbane is the new public editor of The New York Times. Read more:...
View ArticleDiscussing a dilemma
Members of ONO recently discussed an issue concerning complaints, fairness, balance, and ethical dilemmas. The conversation took place via e-mail. It is re-posted here to serve as an example of the...
View ArticleMeet Margo Smit
Margo Smit has been working in journalism since 1989. She was successively a desk editor at commercial and public broadcasters, parliamentary editor at RTL Nieuws, research journalist at KRO Reporter...
View Article“The Grumpy Scold in the House”
The Public Editor Role at the Asahi Shimbun What is the Public Editor doing? An interim report on The Asahi Shimbun’s PE By Yumiko Harashima/ Staff Writer Asahi Shimbun Op-Ed Section “The grumpy...
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