Daily Archives: 3 September 2007

Seven uses of having a readers’ editor

ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: An ombudsman is still not a fixture in most Indian newsrooms largely because editors are very reluctant to cede some of their powers, real and imagined. The Hindu is one of the few papers that has had a readers’ editor for some time and, in today’s column, K. Narayanan lists…