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Elizabeth Jensen : This was a big issue when I was at NPR. I wrote several columns on it. This was the last: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/01/17/797250970/update-nprs-climate-coverage-team-expanding And I saw that NPR just announced that it was concentrating everything in a full-on Climate … Read More

The Organization of News Ombudsmen is delighted to join with more than 500 news organizations around the world on September 28 in supporting World News Day and emphasising the value of fact-based journalism. There has been a proliferation of news … Read More

The respected Turkish journalist and long-time ONO member Yavuz Baydar recently delivered an important speech on media accountability under repressive regimes. You can read the full speech here. It covers, in stark detail, the challenges of being an ombudsman at … Read More

ONO Members have, over the years, worked with a range of organizations in Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe and around the world to promote strong public interest journalism and accountable editorial standards. Recently, in the wake of the outbreak … Read More

The shock Three years ago, the falsifications by reporter Claas Relotius shook SPIEGEL and called the magazine’s credibility into question. What followed? By Brigitte Fehrle Fehrle, 67, is the former chief editor of the Berliner Zeitung. She works as a … Read More

We no longer make the newspaper ‘just for ourselves’ Journalists who want to defend democracy do not have to become activists, according to outgoing ombudsman Sjoerd de Jong. 30 December 2021 Reading time 6 minutes It started as more good, … Read More

Alan Sunderland has been Executive Director of ONO since 2019. Prior to that, he was ONO Treasurer and Board Member. Alan was the Editorial Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, an Australian Public Broadcaster, from 2013 to 2019. He is … Read More