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"We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again."
-- CBS News Anchor and Managing Editor Scott Pelley
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  • 18 May 2013
    Public editor: Was The Globe’s B.C. election coverage balanced? /via @globeandmail http://t.co/QkPN8t59QN
  • 17 May 2013
    RT @JohnJHarwood: Larger journalism problem now than when my Dad cited it as 1st WaPo ombudsman 43 yrs ago: "tendency to make big pictures …
  • 10 May 2013
    RT @globeandmail: Public editor: Readers weigh in on whether to name Amanda Berry’s daughter http://t.co/sRfT6yjmIc (by @SylviaStead)
  • 10 May 2013
    Too much information about rape, says college ombud. http://t.co/griG4g5PA8
  • 10 May 2013
    Ststion sorry for criminal record report on hero. http://t.co/wt5qpUDPNd

 This Month’s Featured Ombudsmen

Kathy English -- Toronto Star
Yavuz Baydar -- Sabah
Suzana Singer -- Folha (English version)
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On the Canadian road to a national press council

As a battle royal plays out in Britain over the future of press accountability, Canada’s newspaper industry is taking slow and cautious steps toward the overhaul of this country’s “broken” system of self-regulation.

Plans to create a national press council in Canada are moving forward. But expect a long road ahead before this comes about, says Toronto Star Public Editor Kathy English.

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Print can still trump the smartphone

The usually negative hive mind of the Internet has been bashing print media as hopelessly backward for so long now that the snark has become passé. But readers often remind me, says Kansas City Star Readers’ Representative Derek Donovan, that some information will forever be better in print.

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observers

‘Scene-of-the-crime’ corrections

Four in five Observer readers can see the value in putting all our mea culpas in one place, says Stephen Pritchard, readers’ editor at The Observer.

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Why we need a "slow news" movement
By Jeffrey Dvorkin
ONO Executive Director


We've all heard about the "slow food" movement (an antidote to fast food) where one takes time to savor the experience.
We need a "slow news" equivalent. And fast!
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