Ombudsmen columns
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Below are links to some of the past week’s columns by ombudsmen, readers’ representatives and editors around the nation. More columns and information about ombudsmen in the U.S. and around the world can be found at the Organization of News Ombudsmen website (which has a permanent link on the right side of this page).
Hartford Courant, ‘Why do we call Obama black?’ -- readers react to last week’s column
Chicago Tribune, ‘Columnist sparks ire’ -- readers react to last week’s coverage of a Kathleen Parker column
The New York Times, ‘Entitled to their opinions, yes. But their facts?’ -- on a May 12 Edward N. Luttwak op-ed
NPR, ‘The giant pool of money’ -- explaining the U.S. housing crisis
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville), ‘Those sticky-notes on A-1’
Sacramento Bee - public editor, ‘Questions of bias, fairness in mayoral race news’; editor, ‘Business news finding a new home in new Bee’
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), ‘ ‘Sex and the City’ coverage overdone or appropriately fun?’
The Salt Lake Tribune, ‘Yes, the Jazz were the talk of the town’
The Virginian-Pilot, ‘Online ‘marketplace of ideas’ can get surly’
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ‘Murder follow-up sometimes falls through cracks’
The Washington Post,‘Recessional for the Invitational?’ - on the popular weekly word-play game
Kansas City Star, ‘Web addresses should bend the rules of grammar’
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), ‘Child abuse trial brings out worst online’
Anniston Star (Alabama), ‘Judging a story’s newsworthiness’