Ombudsmen columns

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Here 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).

PBS, ‘About those ‘retired’ military officer/analysts’

The San Diego Union-Tribune, ‘Front page story provokes readers’

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ‘How AJC editors decide to put which stories where’
Chicago Tribune, ‘Measuring life and death’
Florida Times-Union, ‘Was FCAT headline a joke?’
Hartford Courant, ‘How green is the Courant?’
The Washington Post, ‘Red card for a sports blogger’
The Courier Journal (Louisville, KY), ‘Derbymania: in print and on the Web’
The News&Observer (Raleigh, NC), ‘College Inn story riles Wolfpack fans’
The Plain Dealer, ‘Most of the news on the Web originates with newspapers’
San Antonio Express-News, ‘An inconsistent truth’

Sacramento Bee - editor, ‘A tradition of providing the space to disagree’; public editor, ‘Cartoonist Rex Babin: An animated line of work’

The Salt Lake Tribune, ‘The plain facts aren’t always pleasant’