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The announcements are ominous:
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“Sacramento Bee drops ombud position” (Dell 2008).
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“A nervous news industry is killing off its ombudsmen” (Dvorkin 2008).
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“Is the Newspaper Ombudsman More or Less Obsolete?” (Dumenco 2008)
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“I am not writing a personal obituary, but rather an obituary that has mattered to The Courier-Journal and its readers for 40 years, a position that has mattered to world news media for that long too” (from the first news organization in North America to establish the ombudsman position, the Louisville, Kentucky, “Courier-Journal“: Platt 2008).
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Starc, K. (2010). The News Ombudsman: Viable or Vanishing?. In: Eberwein, T., Müller, D. (eds) Journalismus und Öffentlichkeit. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92006-1_8
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