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Comunicar Journal 30: Audiences and screens in America (Vol. 15 - 2008)
The newsombudsman as an instrument for media education
Susana Herrera-Damas
Everybody agrees. Although we lived in the so-called Information Society, traditional systems do not enable people to make a critical consumption of mass media. For that reason, the traditional spaces must be completed by the intervention of other actors. One of them is the newsombudsman. The aim of this article is to describe the singularity of this mechanism and to specify his instruments in his educational task.
Keywords
Newsombudsman, public editor, media education, selfregulation, journalistic ethics