Tag: Ombudsmen
Monday roundup: PBS, NPR ombuds address Gaza reporting; commercial TV station tries memberships
• Public media’s coverage of the conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip has some audience members questioning news outlets’ objectivity. Last week, PBS Ombudsman ...Tuesday roundup: Rosen fires back on ombud debate; new podcast app hits Apple store
Plus: Beat Making Lab returns to PBS Digital Studios, and John Oliver joins Muppet-like creatures to sing about prisons.After criticism, NPR gives freer rein to upcoming ombudsman
NPR has stepped back from plans to curtail its ombudsman’s duties after receiving criticism from journalists and leaders of its member stations. The ...Wednesday roundup: Rosen criticizes NPR ombud posting; contest calls for tote-bag designs
Plus: Scott Nourse joins PBS Digital, and the Radiolab guys visit Colbert.Wednesday roundup: Viewer anger over logos, KCRW premieres new site
Plus: CPB opens up its search for a consultant to review the National Minority Consortia.A year in, NPR’s Code Switch still figuring out commenting
In their efforts to foster a productive dialogue with readers, the race and culture blog's editors have turned their comments section into ...PBS Digital Studios science show in hot water for off-color video
A PBS Digital Studios program is dealing with blowback from online viewers and the PBS ombudsman for using bobblehead dolls to caricature ...NPR ombud sharply criticizes acclaimed 2011 investigative story
An award-winning 2011 NPR investigative series about Native American children in South Dakota’s foster-care system was seriously flawed and should not have ...Ombudsman seeks details on WAMU ‘meet the producers’ event
CPB ombudsman Joel Kaplan has urged WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., to release more information about a gathering of major donors and station ...CPB charters a single ombudsman
CPB’s website, as of February 2013, carries this document, “Revised February 1, 2011,” redefining the assignment of its ombudsman. Kenneth Tomlinson, past ...CPB ombuds give minor attention to balance
Inspector General Kenneth A. Konz found fault with much of former Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson’s balance crusade, but his report did validate the ...New ombud office met with smiles and suspicion
Are CPB’s new ombudsmen promoters of healthy journalistic discussion or unwelcome monitors now peering over reporters’ shoulders? It depends whom you ask. As ...Lehrer expects to feel some heat: ‘What we’re doing is kitchen work’
Jim Lehrer, co-founder and host of PBS’s NewsHour, spoke April 12, 2005, at the PBS Showcase meeting in Las Vegas, where he accepted ...
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