ONO Newsletter May 2022
VERIFICATION SHOP TALK AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 at 1200 UTC Confirming the details for this: a shop talk on the latest methods for verifying content, and […]
ONO Newsletter April 2022
NEWS SHOP TALK – JUNE 22ND Put this one in your diaries. Our next shoptalk is happening on June 22nd, and it will be combined with our AGM, where members […]
ONO Newsletter March 2022
SHOP TALK: THE WAR IN UKRAINE Thanks again to all of those who were able to join us for an important discussion this month on the challenges of covering the […]
ONO Newsletter February 2022
NEW SHOP TALK: HOW DO WE COVER DISINFORMATION? Wednesday March 9th, 1200 UTC (7.00am New York & Toronto, 9.00am Buenos Aires, 12.00 noon London, 1.00pm Amsterdam & Copenhagen, 2.00pm Cape […]
The Fragility of Media Accountability in Repressive Context: The Case of Turkey
The respected Turkish journalist and long-time ONO member Yavuz Baydar recently delivered an important speech on media accountability under repressive regimes. You can read the full speech here. It covers, […]
An Open Letter on Coverage of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
ONO Members have, over the years, worked with a range of organizations in Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe and around the world to promote strong public interest journalism and […]
CHAT NOTES FROM UKRAINE WAR SHOP TALK
MARCH 9th, 2022 Tim Pauwel : VRT has a debate now about what to do with clips showing Russian POW”s. The Geneva convention forbids making POWs “an object of curiosity”. […]
ONO Newsletter January 2022
Welcome to a new year! As I write this, I am enjoying some quiet, peaceful and uncontroversial holiday time here in Sydney, Australia, watching our ever-vigilant Government tie itself up […]
The Relotius Scandal
The shock Three years ago, the falsifications by reporter Claas Relotius shook SPIEGEL and called the magazine’s credibility into question. What followed? By Brigitte Fehrle Fehrle, 67, is the former […]
SJOERD DE JONG, NRC HANDELSBLAD OMBUDSMAN 2011-2022, REFLECTS ON THE ROLE
We no longer make the newspaper ‘just for ourselves’ Journalists who want to defend democracy do not have to become activists, according to outgoing ombudsman Sjoerd de Jong. 30 December […]