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It’s the season for political fact-checking
In the United States, the presidential political season is about to heat up. That always brings out some of the most pointed observations and criticisms from readers, notes Kansas City Star Public Editor Derek Donovan.
The refrain Donovan hears most often is simple: The Kansas City Star needs to cover the campaigns vigorously, with an emphasis on holding politicians accountable for sticking to the facts.
Share your opinion on Canada’s press councils
Some critical questions are being asked in a public survey on the future of Canada’s press councils.
Shake-up lends irony to press ombud’s award
Joe Thloloe, South Africa’s press ombudsman, has been honoured with the Order of Ikhamanga (silver) during one of media’s most difficult times.
Hacking away at the truth
This is the text of The Guardian editor’s Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London on Nov. 10, 2011.
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about …
Press ethics: drawing the line
The ongoing phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. has brought the discussion about press ethics to the forefront once again.
The awareness of the BBC
The list of rules and standards that govern the journalistic work of the BBC represents several hours of reading. SInce 2005, David Jordan monitors compliance with these standards. Leading a team of 12 employees, Jordan is a member of the Management Committee of the BBC in addition to advising journalists, presenters and producers on a daily basis on issues of ethics and journalistic ethics. The former producer of current affairs attended this year’s annual ONO conference.
Cover homicide victims sensitively
Kansas City Star Public Editor Derek Donovan says some of the most difficult conversations he has with readers come when he is contacted by family members or loved ones of the victims of violent crime.
Should ombudsmen criticize opinion?
Dealing with the question of whether ombuds should be involved in critiquing opinion journalism has long been a problem. That’s because journalism should be about allowing a range of opinions. But what if an opinion goes too far?
Yavuz Baydar from the newspaper Sabah in Istanbul posed this dilemma and got some answers from ONO members.
– Jeffrey Dvorkin
ONO Executive Director
Ombuds-
Here is another question for all of you.
We have a developing case of a columnist who has been accused of denigrating a physically handicapped MP (who lost her leg and arm in an accident), with political …
Kaplan, Joel
Ombudsman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
401 Ninth St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
Email: jkkaplan@syr.edu
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Hacking away at the truth
This is the text of The Guardian editor’s Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London on Nov. 10, 2011.
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about …
ONO-president Jacob Mollerup’s address to The World Newspaper Congress and The World Editors Forum in Vienna
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 Vienna had ethics on the programme – heavily influenced by the phone hacking scandal in the UK.
A joint session (moderated by professor Roy Greenslade from UK) asked the question “Profit, public interest, ethics – where to draw the line?”.
ONO-president Jacob Mollerup was the first panellist to give his thoughts. This is his opening remarks on where to draw the line:
“Before trying to answer …
Who stands for the public in Murdoch vs the government?
Editor’s introduction: In this essay, Geoffrey Robertson QC, who has extensive experience representing media companies and free speech cases, explores the role of the Leveson Inquiry, established by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in July to conduct a “judge-led inquiry into the culture, practices, and ethics of the press and the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International and other newspaper organisations.” Robertson places the inquiry in the historical context of media regulation in the UK. He casts a skeptical eye on the prospects for meaningful media, especially given the failures of past similar attempts and the low credibility of the UK’s Press Complaints Commission (PCC) in either protecting privacy or enforcing its ethical rulings.He then explores various proposed alternative structures to media regulation. Since the essay deals with UK-specific material, British grammar conventions have been preserved.
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