2011 ONO Conference

We will be meeting in our annual conference in Montreal, Canada from May 15 to May 18 under the sponsorship of the national broadcaster, Radio-Canada/CBC.

A detailed agenda will be sent out soon, but for your planning purposes and travel arrangements, there will be an executive meeting beginning at noon on Sunday, May 15. A welcoming reception will take place for all attendees that evening. The conference will conclude at noon on Wednesday, May 18.…

2010 ONO Conference

The 2010 ONO Conference will be held May 12-15 at Reuters Institute, Oxford University in Oxford, England. The theme is “Expanding ONO’s Influence in a Digital Age.”…

2010 Conference

The 2010 ONO Conference will be held May 12-15 at Reuters Institute, Oxford University in Oxford, England. The theme is “Expanding ONO’s Influence in a Digital Age.”

The conference will feature a session on how we all cope with maintaining values and ethics in the new media landscape ,which will take place in a modern lecture theatre at St Anne’s College.

Participants will have a chance to engage in the time-honoured pastime of punting on the river before drinks and dinner at an old boathouse, savour a splendid meal in venerable Exeter College (founded 1314), join a walking tour of …

Overview

WHEN
May 10-13, 2009

WHERE
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Sunday, May 10
National Public Radio (NPR)
635 Massachusetts Ave, N.W.

1 p.m. – 5 p.m. — ONO Board Meeting in Board Rooms East & West, 1st floor (lunch not provided)

5 p.m. – 6 p.m. — Optional Gathering at NPR

All ombudsmen and their guests are encouraged to meet in the board rooms at NPR to tour the recording studios and observe a taping of the flagship show “All Things Considered” before going to dinner

7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. — ONO-sponsored dinner at Busboys & Poets Restaurant, 1025 …

Podcast

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Presentation: Watchdog or Decoy

News Ombudsman: watchdog or decoy?

This presentation was given at ONO’s 2009 conference in Washington, D.C.
By Huub Evers
Media-ombudsmen, The Netherlands

Two years ago, the Netherlands Media Ombudsman Foundation started its activities. This foundation has been set up by journalists to raise a voice from inside journalism about ethics and quality standards on a national level for traditional and digital media. It is the goal of the MON-foundation to speak out about ethics issues in journalism, to open a debate about the ruling journalistic standards and the need for adaptation of existing or introduction of new standards for the …

Presentation: An Evironment at Risk

The newsombudsman in an environment at risk

This presentation was given at ONO’s 2009 conference in Washington, D.C.
By Jan van Groesen
Media-ombudsmen, The Netherlands

At the start of this conference it would be very easy to paint a gloomy picture of international journalism and the dark perspectives of the newsombudsman related to it. Because reality tells us a harsh story. It is the story that journalists have to adapt to a development in which the good old newspapers are overhauled by internet as the main source of news. According to a recent survey of Pew Research Center, television is …

2009 Conference Video

Panel discussion: Why Have an Ombudsman? Moderator: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Ryerson University (Canada); Panel: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director, Annenberg Public Policy Center; Kevin Klose, dean, University of Maryland Journalism School; Mark Whitaker, Washington bureau chief, NBC News; and Katharine Weymouth, CEO, The Washington Post.

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Video courtesy of National Public Radio and TV4, Stockholm.…

2009 Conference Slideshow

Photos by Marcia A. Apperson…

Does the World Need More News Ombudsmen?…

STOCKHOLM — The “Readers’ Editor” for The Observer of London was sightseeing here last week when his cell phone rang. It was a Kenyan journalist asking how his newspaper company might create the role of a news Ombudsman.

In the last decade, Kenya has enjoyed a surge in press freedom, a trend that’s paralleled the opening up of Kenya’s political system. One of the best testaments is the phone call from the editorial director for the Nation Media Group, who wanted an Ombudsman for his papers in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and two other …