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What is a Public Editor: Who Polices the Press? The Ombudsman Model, Explained
The accountability role inside newsrooms borrows a Swedish invention from 1809. Its power depends entirely on independence.

The accountability role inside newsrooms borrows a Swedish invention from 1809. Its power depends entirely on independence.

Emergency committees, continuity plans and briefing books: the machinery that runs when normal government stops working.

The phrase sounds ceremonial. In practice it marks the line between a government's public business and everything else a state does.

The chancellery on the corner is a reporting post, a trade office and an emergency room for citizens, all at once.