by Sydney Smith on Mar 14, 2011
Bribe Offered to Toronto Star Reporter to Unpublish Story
Kathy English, the Toronto Star's public editor, published a 2009 survey about the growing requests for unpublishing -- the term for...
Ombudsmen/Press Councils
by Sydney Smith on Mar 15, 2011
Readers Say NYT Texas Gang Rape Story Blames Victim
New York Times public editor, Arthur Brisbane, joined readers in criticizing the newspaper's March 9 story about a Texas gang rape of an...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 19, 2011
UK PCC Agrees Scottish Daily Mail Guilty of Harassing Student’s Father
The UK Press Complaints Commission agreed with a member of the public who complained that the Scottish Daily Mail was...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 27, 2011
Front-Page Photo of Dead Child: Is it Ethical?
The Pacific Freedom Forum, a media advocacy group for Pacific media, criticized the Vanuatu Times for publishing a photo of a...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 28, 2011
Why didn’t Poynter Disclose It’s Being Paid in ESPN-Ombudsman Position?
Kelly McBride's first column as part of the Poynter Review Project for ESPN is out. (See here.) But, Poynter and...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 29, 2011
Undercover Stings Not Journalism, Says Public Editor Ted Diadiun
Reader representative Ted Diadiun opined on the subject of undercover stings and media ethics in a recent column for the...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 10, 2011
Newspaper Invaded Privacy by Publishing Photo of Divorced Man
The Press Complaints Commission reported that The People newspaper violated a man's privacy by publishing an un-blurred photo in a...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 12, 2011
Miami Herald Ombudsman: Newspaper Staffers & Readers’ E-mails
Edward Schumacher-Matos, ombudsman for the Miami Herald, questioned why newspapers like the Herald put reporters' e-mail contacts on the website but...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2011
NPR Ombudsman On Being NPR’s Ombudsman
In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, NPR's ombudsman Alicia Shepard commented on what it's like to have her job. ...