El ombudsman, como mecanismo de autorregulación

Hugo Aznar

doi:10.4185/RLCS-1999/07

Authors

Hugo Aznar CEU San Pablo University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0167-4686

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-1999/07

Keywords:

Ethics, Self-regulation, Press, Deontology, Professional code, Drafting statute, Style book, Council, Ombudsman

Abstract

Politicians, businessmen, journalists and society in general all appeal to self-regulation when talking about the ethics of the media. But what is self-regulation and what mechanisms exist to put it into practice? In 'Responsible communication. Deontology and self-regulation of the media '(Barcelona, 1999) I have studied all the self-regulation mechanisms that can be applied in the media (codes, editorial statutes, style books, advice, etc.). Each of them addresses its history, its functions, its scope, etc. The following text includes -with some modifications to shorten its length- the section of the book dedicated to the ombudsman, in which its role in promoting journalistic ethics and deontology is discussed.

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Author Biography

Hugo Aznar, CEU San Pablo University

Professor of Public Ethics and Communication and Professor of History of Modern Political Thought at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University. He has spent time at the University of York (Great Britain), the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), the Centre for Legal and Social Research of the University of Cordoba (Argentina) and the European Institute of Florence (Italy). He has been Principal Investigator of more than 10 Internal University R+D+i Projects as well as 2 MICIN National Projects. His publications, in addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, include Ética y periodismo (Paidós, 2000); Comunicación responsable (Ariel, 2011-3rd; translated into Portuguese), Pautas éticas para la comunicación social (FUSP, 2005) and Ética de la comunicación y nuevos retos sociales (Paidós, 2005). He has also coordinated the collective books Sobre la intimidad (FUSP, 1996), Deontología y autorregulación informativa (México, Fundación Manuel Buendía y U. Iberoamericana, 2000), De la democracia de masas a la democracia deliberativa (Ariel, 2014), De la polis a la metrópolis (Abada, 2015), La Generación del 14 (Plaza y Valdés, 2016), Ortega y el tiempo de las masas (Plaza y Valdés, 2018) and El derecho de acceso a los medios de comunicación (Tirant, 2018, 2 vols.). He has also edited and translated Libertad y prensa by W. Lippmann (Tecnos, 2011). For this extensive research work he has received several awards, such as the 10th edition of the Premios a la Investigación sobre Comunicación de Masas del Consejo Audiovisual de Cataluña (1998) and the Ángel Herrera de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas (2001). He has also won several journalism awards: the 34th edition of the Manos Unidas Press Award (2014) and the 2nd edition of the Miramar Award, from the Malaga Bar Association (2017); as well as for short essays: the 38th edition of the Enrique Ferrán Award from the Journal of Culture and Philosophy El Ciervo (2014). Since 2016 he has been a member of the Commission for Arbitration, Complaints and Ethics of the FAPE (Federation of Spanish Journalists' Associations).