“Isn’t Azerbaijan a democratic republic? Constitutionally, it is, of course. But the constitution is one thing and the political culture and practice are something else.” — Christel Fricke, director of the Center for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo, Norway, writing at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. It’s a new year […]
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Thanks to my dear friend Bob Ashmore for alerting me to The Wall Street Journal’s eighth D: All Things Digital conference. NPR President Vivian Schiller’s comments (with video here and here), are especially noteworthy for longtime NPR listeners.
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“In today’s digital media environment, ombudsmen and news/press councils are all rethinking what they do,” says John Hamer, of the Washington News Council, commenting on the Organization of News Ombudsmen’s annual convention at Oxford University May 12-15.
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See ONO’s new fan site on Facebook — and what bloggers are saying about it. While you’re at it, become a fan.
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“In print, the Guardian is, even now, the ninth or 10th biggest paper in Britain. On the web it is, by most measurements, the second best-read English-language newspaper in the world. If the New York Times really does start charging for access, the Guardian may become the newspaper with the largest web English-speaking readership in […]
Jeffrey Dvorkin, executive director of our international Organization of News Ombudsmen, alerted me to this Washington Post tribute to Deborah Howell. He called it “An elegant obit.” That’s well said of a tough journalist and elegant human being.
From our recent Washington, D.C. conference of the world’s news ombudsmen, I came away thinking that we members of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen don’t have The Answer for newspapers either. At least, not here in the USA. Our group’s president, Stephen Pritchard, reported that since last year’s meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. newspapers […]
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ìI hardly have time to go to the bathroom,î said then-Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell. ìStart a blog?î Before we survey the recent Washington, D.C. meeting of the world’s news ombudsmen, indulge me a look back at our meetings last year in Stockholm and two years ago at Harvard. Amid all the breaking changes at […]
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