Welcome to the Members Only Section – Organization of News Ombuds and Standards Editors (ONO)

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 the New York Times, and Gavin Fang, Editorial director with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ONO Board member Lars Bennike (TV2, Denmark) was the host and moderator.

If you could not attend or would like to watch it again, click on this link that will lead you to ONO’s Vimeo page (password : ONOvideosmembers). Please remember: this content must not be shared or published outside of ONO.

For recordings of earlier Shop Talks, click here.

NEW – READ MINUTES OF ONO 2024 AGM

ONO 2024 Annual General Meeting was held on May 18, in Cape Town and via Zoom. You can read the minutes here.

NEW – LOOKING BACK AT ONO’S 2024 CONFERENCE in CAPE TOWN, SOUTH Africa

You were unable to attend this year’s conference in Cape Town? Click here to take a look at some of the presentations offered by our panelists.

Read our APRIL 2024 Newsletter

Click here to read April 2024 Conference Edition of ONO’s Newsletter

You should already have received in its PDF version by email. If not, let us know: newsombudsmenorg@gmail.com

Click here to see previous editions of ONO’s Newsletter.

From our February 2024 Shop Talk

Ombuds Under Threat was the topic of our February 2024 Shop Talk.

Our guest speakers were Argentina’s Defensoria del Público and ONO board member Miriam Lewin, and ONO president Margo Smit, ombudsman for NPO, the Dutch public broadcasters.

Miriam shared with us the challenges her office faces under the presidency of Javier Milei, while Margo talked about her own experience with adversity. To read Margo’s slides, click here.

If you could not attend on February 7 or would like to watch it again, click on this link that will lead you to ONO’s Vimeo page (password : shoptalkfeb2024). Please remember: any of this content should be shared or published outside of ONO.

For recordings of earlier Shop Talks, click here.

War in the Middle East : a Special Section

The conflict between Israel and Hamas raises many questions and gives us a lot to think about. Our October 18 Pop-up ShopTalk is an eloquent proof of this.

We would like to invite you to visit ONO’s new special section, where we compiled articles worthy of your attention.

You read something that may be of interest for our community? Please write to us at newsombudsmenorg@gmail.com.

Highlights from the 2023 ONO conference in London

See the 2023 conference programme
Learn more about this year’s moderators, panelists and presenters
Read extended notes on the conference, including session summaries and selected audio and transcripts
Read follow up information to cases mentioned in presentations at the conference
Listen to the conference session on Ukraine
Read Dr Glynn Greensmith’s “Mass Shootings & The Media” presentation
Read George Claassen’s “Abuse of & Attacks on Journalists” presentation
NEWLY ADDED Read Jussi Latvala’s “Journalistic Transparency and Trust” presentation
- As promised, here is Jussi’s full study (The mirage in the trust desert: Challenging journalism’s transparency infatuation). You can also click here to read its summary.
Watch Margaret Sullivan’s keynote address (see below or click here)
Watch our session on artificial intelligence (see below or click here)

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Feel free to read, watch and listen to it as you like
but, out of respect for members who attended this year’s conference,
please do not share those links outside of ONO.

About this very exclusive section!

Here you will find a range of useful content, which we will be regularly adding to and expanding over time,

The aim of this section is to provide a more private and controlled space where ombuds and standards editors can find and share useful information, ask questions of each other and visit links to a range of sites.

If you have a question you would like to ask other ombuds, or an issue you are researching, let us know by emailing newsombudsmenorg@gmail.com and we can list it here on the site.

Alternatively, if you have written or know of some interesting research or articles that you think might interest fellow members, let us know and we will include it here.

Finally, if you find a broken link, outdated or incorrect information or any other problems, let us know and we will fix it.

All communication to newsombudsmenorg@gmail.com