The Media and Democracy Project Submits Letter to The New York Times Urging Reinstatement of Public Editor
–News Direct– The Media and Democracy Project (MAD) on Sunday, submitted a letter to The New York Times urging its leadership to reinstate a public editor. From 2003-2017, the news organization had a public editor, to be responsible for supervising the implementation of proper journalism ethics at that publication. These responsibilities include[d] identifying and examining critical errors or omissions and acting as a liaison to the public. In 2017, the position was eliminated, and the NYT explained that the role
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