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 …
Summary Video
2008 ONO Conference
Gunnar “Kulan” Kugelberg of TV4 in Stockholm has produced a video summarizing the 2008 conference of the Organization of News Ombudsmen in May.
View it here…
The battle between old and new media…
Early summer in Stockholm sees the sun set at midnight and rise again at 2.30am, making this beautiful city of water and shimmering sunlight a suitably disorientating place to examine the unsettling future of journalism.
Readers’ editors from around the world gathered in this almost continual daylight last week to consider the future of an industry which is going through monumental change, with journalists everywhere examining how they work and where they produce that work – in print, online, in podcasts or on video.
There was considerable angst in the air. Cultural change is always unsettling, …
Diplomat, not a soldier…
The ombudsman is someone who seeks mutually satisfactory solutions for all parties to a disagreement; he is an agent of conciliation, not litigation
The annual conference of the Organization of News Ombudsmen (ONO), which groups about 100 people who perform the job in news organizations around the world, ended yesterday in Stockholm.
The Swedish capital is the location most appropriate for this meeting because it was in this nation that the word was born and the position was created in 1713, as Par-Arne Jigenius, ombudsman at the Swedish daily “Dagens …
2008 Conference Report: Stockholm Weblog
REPORT FROM ONO’S 2008 CONFERENCE IN STOCKHOLM
Friday, May 30, 2008
Day 2 of the annual ONO conference in Stockholm began with a bang, and three speakers who talked about how today’s challenges in the news business (on all platforms) will shape and transform the ways newsrooms and ombuds operate tomorrow.
We will continue to post their full remarks, or links to Web sites that give you more information about them, as the day progresses. For now, a recap:
– Jane Singer, University of Central Lancashire/University of Iowa, spoke of “Norms and the Network: Journalism Ethics in a Shared Media …
A smorgasbord of ideas from the annual ONO conference…
The title of the 2008 conference of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen was The News Ombudsman Today and Tomorrow, so it seemed ironic to be told by Joakim Jardenberg, chief executive of Mindpark, a web development agency serving five media owners, that preparations for tomorrow should include ceasing to be ombudsmen and becoming “community managers” instead.
The setting of last week’s conference was Stockholm, a place so handsome that some of us are finding it hard to shake off city-envy. It was doubly ironic that we were being urged to drop the ombudsman tag by a …
Panel discussion
Panel discussion: Can listeners, viewers and Web users improve journalism?
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Content is not King; Conversation Is
Joakim Jardenberg — Content is not king; conversation is
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