Word: ombudsman
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...gangs that McCord proved how tough he really is - by taking on not only the killers, but also the police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned him from street fighter to amateur investigator was vindicated, Monday, when the official police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, alleged that officers of the Special Branch of Britain's Royal Ulster Constabulary had knowingly colluded with Protestant paramilitaries responsible for at least a dozen murders, shielding them from justice. Her report echoes McCord's allegations, on the basis of his investigation into...
...poured his heart and soul into The Courier-Journal,” Daniloff says. “It was difficult for him because he was a slow reader, and yet he insisted on reading everything in the newspaper every day.”Bingham hired the first full-time ombudsman in 1969, then instituted the first extensive conflict of interest policy in the country in 1972. “We were told never to accept anything free, even a cup of coffee,” says Stanley K. Macdonald, former projects editor at The Courier-Journal...
Okrent came to the Times in late 2003, in the wake of the scandal that began with a slew of fabrications by reporter Jayson Blair and culminated with change atop the newspaper’s masthead and an experiment with the ombudsman-like position of public editor...
...accounts, the person who keeps the foundation "humble and mindful," as its informal motto goes, is Bill Sr., who is in the office every day. He earns a salary of $179,275 and is very involved in the foundation's Pacific Northwest projects, but he is also the informal ombudsman. "Bill Gates Sr. is in the halls, in my head," says Stonesifer. Whenever the staff congratulates itself on a particularly positive media story, Senior loudly complains that the focus should have been on the good works the foundation supports, not the foundation or its founders. "If you spend...
...career as an openly gay and black journalist.“White Ivy League people are the mass of the news world...minorities have to work twice as hard to get the credit,” he said.Being a minority journalist, however, can also be advantageous, said Boston Globe Ombudsman Richard Charcón.Charcón spoke about the importance of diversity in the newsroom and said that his Spanish language skills have allowed him to report stories that people without his background could not cover.“You need to have people of different cultures and people...