The Organization of News Ombudsmen and Standards Editors
Integrity, Transparency, Accountability.
ONO is the international organization that represents ombudsmen, readers’ editors and standards editors in print, broadcast and digital newsrooms around the world. We are dedicated to protecting and enhancing quality journalism by encouraging respectful and truthful discourse about journalism’s practices and purposes.
“One thing all ombudsmen share: a powerful commitment to making journalism better by letting the public inside the process of information gathering, editing and distribution. There can be no finer goal” – Jeffrey Dvorkin, “The Modern News Ombudsman: A User’s Guide”
OMBUDSMEN IN THE NEWS
- In the Netherlands, NRC Ombudsman Sjoerd de Jong explores the balance between reporting on individual issues and exploring systemic failures
- Fact checking the fact checkers? Danish Broadcasting User’s Editor Jesper Termansen rejects complaints about an example of fact-checking
- The importance of bearing witness, from Toronto Star Public Editor Bruce Campion-Smith
- ONO Board Member and News 24 Public Editor George Claassen writes that “Journalism is the main vaccine against disinformation”
- Reporting Colin Powell’s death and other issues. The latest from ONO Member and NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride.
- ONO Member and recently appointed Ombudsman (Defensoria del Publico) in Argentina Miriam Lewin describes the key elements of the role and its importance.
- ONO Member Tim Pauwels on the human errors that creep into journalism (Video in Dutch)
To find out more about ONO, for media requests or to inquire about joining ONO, contact:
Alan Sunderland, Executive Director, ONO