2024 Conference (Cape Town)

After a memorable conference last year in London, ONO holds its 2024 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from May 15 to May 18, 2024. There will be no conference […]

Welcome to the Members Only Section

FROM OUR MAY 2024 SHOP TALK Ombuds, Standards Editors and Social Media was the topic of our May 2024 Shop Talk. Our guest speakers were Susan Wessling, Standards editor for […]

ONO Newsletter January 2024

A word from the board Dear ONO member, Plans for the 2024 ONO conference in Cape Town and Stellenbosch are well under way. In this newsletter we are asking members […]

ONO NEWSLETTER December 2023

A word from the board Dear ONO member, It has been a difficult and challenging run of late in the news business. Against a background of ever greater economic pressures […]

About ONO 2023 Conference

The 2023 ONO Conference was held in London from May 31st to June 2nd, at the premises of the BBC and The Guardian. Read the full program for the event […]

LONDON CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

The 2023 ONO Conference will be held in London from May 31st to June 2nd, at the premises of the BBC and The Guardian. More details on the agenda, guest […]

CHAT NOTES FROM DIVERSITY SHOP TALK

David Regev : Hi. Do you receive complaints about diversity and if so, what are your powers to handle complaints and how do you handle them? Miriam Lewin : One […]

Chat notes from Climate Change shop talk, October 2022

Elisabeth Jensen : This was a big issue when I was at NPR. I wrote several columns on it. This was the last: https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2020/01/17/797250970/update-nprs-climate-coverage-team-expanding And I saw that NPR just […]

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”. […]

Chat comments – November 2021 shop talk

Sjoerd de Jong : You have to talk to reporters, don’t you? Going to the source, after all. Another question, once you’ve talked to them, do you name them in […]