Ombudsmen columns
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The election, corrections and production problems are a few of the topics that U.S. ombudsmen and readers’ representatives have written about in the last few days. Following are links to a number of those columns.
More columns and information about ombudsmen in the U.S. and around the world can be found at the Organization of News Ombudsmen website (which has a permanent link on the right side of this page).
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ‘Endorsements may raise hackles, but they’re useful’
Chicago Tribune ‘Surely, beware of those certain predictions’
Courier-Journal (Louisville) ‘The hopes and dreams to make history’
News&Observer (Raleigh, NC) ‘Errors and their flip side: corrections’
New York Times ‘Public and private lives, intersecting’
Orlando Sentinel ‘Communication breakdown leaves readers out of the game’
Palm Beach Post ‘Not the usual MLK talk’
PBS ‘The Race Is On’
Plain Dealer (Cleveland) ‘Use of a racial epithet stirs newsroom debate’
Sacramento Bee ‘Survey for accuracy produces above-average grade’
Washington Post ‘Pollsters in the primary storms’