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news councils  

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  • A news council is a nongovernmental body formed by journalists and/or news media owners, and which usually includes nonmedia members, created to adjudicate public complaints against media misbehavior. Its only means of punishment is the voluntary publication of its judgments by news media. [Source: Encyclopedia of Journalism; News Councils]

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