Newspaper Names Its First Ombudsman
From Times Wire Reports
Daniel Okrent, an author and former magazine editor, was named the New York Times’ first ombudsman to review coverage, follow up on reader complaints and write periodic columns.
The position, called public editor, was created three months ago after an internal probe into the Jayson Blair scandal.
Unlike ombudsmen at some newspapers, Okrent said he would not be “writing memos to the staff.... I’m determined to remain separate from the staff, to be a reader of the newspaper.”
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