What Role Should Ombudsmen Play Today?
What role should public editors play in today's newsrooms? Are they asking the right questions? What are they doing for readers and the news organizat...
What role should public editors play in today's newsrooms? Are they asking the right questions? What are they doing for readers and the news organizat...
Jerry Lanson | Posted 05.23.2012
I confess. I am a man of words and thus, increasingly, a dinosaur. The New York Times' public editor, conduit to America's most influential news organization, should be more.
The Washington Post | Hide This | Posted 05.21.2012
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane will leave his position on Sept. 1 of this year, completing a two-year term as in-house watchdog for the ...
Katherine Fung | Posted 01.23.2012
New York Times' public editor Arthur Brisbane appeared on "Reliable Sources" to defend his controversial column asking whether the paper "should be a ...
Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.19.2012
January has not been a good month for media ombudsmen, as the in-house press analysts at our two leading newspapers have both come under attack for writing lazy, ill-considered commentaries that seemed to confirm the views of their most strident critics.
Dave Saldana | Posted 03.18.2012
Let January 12, 2012, be marked as the date when the New York Times confessed, in an oblique but nonetheless conclusive way, that it theretofore had not been terribly concerned with discerning and reporting the truth.
Jonathan Weiler | Posted 03.16.2012
Though the overwhelmingly negative response to Brisbane was warranted, the episode itself illustrates the degree to which major political forces have already succeeded in bending the mainstream media to its will.
Seth Mnookin | Posted 03.13.2012
Today the New York Times asked for input on "whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge 'facts' that are asserted by newsmakers they write about." The response among my peers has been fairly unanimous: Are you f-ing kidding me?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.12.2012
In a game-changing move that could have a far-reaching impact on the way journalism is practiced in America, New York Times public editor Arthur Brisb...
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 10.29.2011
A bitter argument has broken out at the New York Times about the paper's business coverage. On Sunday, Arthur Brisbane, the paper's ombudsman, wrot...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.14.2011
How to separate fact from fiction in evaluating fracking, the new and burgeoning next phase fossil fuel proffered by the gas and oil industry?
The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 09.06.2011
In response to the revelation last month that Ragan Communications was selling tickets to a "video rebroadcast" of David Pogue's advice for how PR pro...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2011
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane deserves a lot of credit this week for noting the mealy-mouthed way his own paper has treated the issue of torture over the years.
David Callahan | Posted 05.25.2011
It is good that the New York Times has a "Public Editor" to keep an eye on the paper's ethics. But sometimes, it seems like valuable column space is wasted chastising Times staffers for minor missteps.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The New York Times has named Arthur S. Brisbane as its new public editor. The newspaper's announcement appeared on its media blog Mo...
Poynter. | Posted 05.23.2012