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20 April 1980. ( 1980-04-20) Ombudsman was a Canadian television programme which sought to investigate and resolve disputes between people and government or business systems. When the series began, government ombudsman offices were only available in a few Canadian provinces. The initial Ombudsman episodes began mid-season in January 1974 and ...
The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Previously, CBC relied on The Canadian Press to provide it with wire copy for its news bulletins.
The article was the subject of investigation by CBC's ombudsman, following CBC's receipt of 25 complaints from readers concerned that "it was wrong of CBC News to publish this article, that it fed into a racist argument about Indigenous peoples that saw Mr. Boushie as a menace. It was seen as an endorsement of the use of violence by some readers."
The Organization of News Ombudsmen and Standards Editors ( ONO) is a modern, international non-profit organization. ONO membership comprises news ombudsman, readers' representatives and standards editors from around the world, working online, in print, in television and radio. All are individuals who work for professional news organizations ...
David J. Bazay (July 12, 1939 – October 30, 2005) was a Canadian journalist for the CBC and later the English language ombudsman. He was scheduled to retire in November 2005 [ 1] and was succeeded upon his death by Vincent A. Carlin. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1939 and grew up in Elma, Manitoba. Bazay joined the CBC in 1972 as a TV ...
The Office of the British Columbia Ombudsperson is one of ten provincial ombudsman offices in Canada. It receives enquiries and complaints about the administrative practices and services of public agencies in British Columbia. [1] It is headed by the B.C. Ombudsperson, an officer of the provincial legislature who is independent of government ...
In 2012, CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe responded to a public complaint about a possible conflict of interest because Smart reported about politics before and after marrying Rebecca Scott who had joined the provincial government as deputy press secretary for Premier Christy Clark. Fellow journalists defended Smart but CBC's ombudsman found that ...
Jeffrey A. Dvorkin (born September 15, 1946) is a Canadian - American journalist . A Vice President of News and ombudsman for National Public Radio from 1997 to 2006, [1] [2] Dvorkin moved to the United States in 1997 following a lengthy career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto and Montreal, where he was Managing Editor and ...