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Hacking away at the truth
This is the text of The Guardian editor’s Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London on Nov. 10, 2011.
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about …
Press ethics: drawing the line
The ongoing phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. has brought the discussion about press ethics to the forefront once again.
The awareness of the BBC
The list of rules and standards that govern the journalistic work of the BBC represents several hours of reading. SInce 2005, David Jordan monitors compliance with these standards. Leading a team of 12 employees, Jordan is a member of the Management Committee of the BBC in addition to advising journalists, presenters and producers on a daily basis on issues of ethics and journalistic ethics. The former producer of current affairs attended this year’s annual ONO conference.
Brisbane will be new public editor at New York Times
The New York Times today named its next public editor, Arthur S. Brisbane, a journalist and news executive with 34 years experience, including as publisher and editor of The Kansas City Star and as reporter and editor at The Washington Post.
Brisbane is the fourth public editor appointed by The Times.
Job was like “a shock absorber”
Media Matters’ Joe Strupp interviews departing New York Times Ombudsman Clark Hoyt at the end of his three-year run in the post. He says the experience has been positive, although sometimes making him feel like “a shock absorber.”
“I was expecting it to be sort of a shock absorber job between the newsroom and individual…s who were commenting about things – that is the way it has turned out to be,” Hoyt said.
Being the complaint department at The New York Times
When veteran journalist Daniel Okrent joined the New York Times as the newspaper’s first public editor in 2003, he entered a newsroom reeling in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal and found himself critiquing the work of some of the best reporters in the country—many of whom were unused to having their work questioned. As a result, he says staffers “were very, very dubious, and in some cases openly hostile” toward him. ”
Ombudsman can help prevent cheaters, Kurtz says
In Howard Kurtz’s Washington Post review of “My Times in Black and White” by former New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd, Kurtz acknowledges that an ombudsman in the newsroom helps change the kind of atmosphere in which cheating journalists like Jayson Blair can thrive.
“The Times has changed that atmosphere under Bill Keller’s editorship, and the existence of a public editor — an outgrowth of the Blair scandal — provides an important safety valve,” Kurtz writes.
Salt Lake Tribune eliminates reader advocate post
The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, has eliminated the position of reader advocate. Connie Coyne, who has held the position for the past seven years, will be leaving the paper as of March 26.
ONO president promotes ombudsmanship in U.K.
ONO President Stephen Pritchard participated in the annual meeting of the UK Branch of the Commonwealth Journalists Association, a panel of expert speakers on technological and commercial trends in both electronic and print journalism over the first decade of the 21st century.
He said that apart from his counterpart at The Guardian there are no other ombudspersons in the British press, where they were common in major U.S. newspapers and there were now over 70 world-wide. News accountability, he said, was essential to maintain credibility.
Saying, ‘Yes,’ to courage in journalism, compassion and imagination
Jacqui Banaszynski, Knight Chair Professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, delivered a eulogy at the Washington, D.C., memorial service for Deborah Howell, former ombudsman for The Washington Post.
“We in journalism have lost a guiding star, “Banaszynski said. “But Deborah’s star sparkled at the center of a constellation that continues to grow and shine. Stories beget stories beget stories, and live on.
“So if I look down to find the bottom of my grief, I am looking the wrong way. I need to look up, into a universe that is infinite and eternal. And in that universe, I see not …
