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Why newspapers need an independent voice

In his first column written since taking on the role as president of ONO, Stephen Pritchard, the reader's editor of the Observer, takes stock of the newspaper business in the U.S. In the past two months, newspapers eliminated thousands of jobs including positions at Gannett, the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, and countless others. Among the casualties at a number of papers are the ombudsmen or readers' editor jobs. Pam Platt, public editor for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and most recent president of ONO, was among them.

Eliminating these positions in newsrooms across America is what Pritchard calls "narrow thinking." "It's narrow because a lively engagement with your audience is healthy for all sorts of reasons, not least because it makes good business sense," says Pritchard. "I have now to step up and keep the flag flying for this unique form of media self-regulation. It's not going to be a picnic."

Stephen Pritchard in The Observer

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Newspapers dying? Not in global view
In one of his final columns before the Sacramento Bee eliminated its public editor position as part of its "ongoing restructuring," Armando Acuna pondered the positive findings of the World Association of Newspapers.

Armando Acuna in The Sacramento Bee

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A perennial summer complaint: ESPN's coverage of Major League Baseball is biased in favor of the east coast of the United States. Le Anne Schreiber on ESPN

Many journalists have a hard time with numbers, and many "choose simply to dump them on the heads of readers." Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva in Folha de São Paulo

With the discontinuation of its community sections, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution joins legions of newspapers across the U.S. in reducing the size of print editions. Angela Tuck in The Atlanta Journal-Constitutiton