According to Linda Seebach, the National Conference of Editorial Writers are asking these questions of their members:
How do you screen columnists and editorial cartoonists?
Do you have an ethics policy?
What policy do you follow if contracted columnists/cartoonists violate standard journalism ethics (regardless of where you have an individual ethics policy)?
Do you have a fact-checking process for columnists? How does it work?
When editorial writers or editors find a factual error in a column or cartoon, what effective means can be used to communicate that error and have a correction made?
Since Linda is on the editorial board of one of our local papers I wonder what their answers will be?
Via Instapundit.
