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Follow #ONO2012 for tweets from Organization of News Ombuds conference, which began today in Copenhagen (and where I am not, alas...) 2:14 PM May 21st via web
14% of @latimes corrections are for misspelled names. RT @Poynter: Why we misspell names & how to get them right journ.us/MzIuxf 12:54 PM May 21st via TweetDeck
Grant will fund five reporting positions at L.A. Times lat.ms/Mp1puE 1:33 PM May 17th via dlvr.it
.@latimes receives $1-million grant from Ford Foundation. Will fund coverage of immigration, ethnic communities. latimes.com/news/local/la-… 12:56 PM May 17th via Tweet Button
L.A. Times ending Sunday magazine with June 3 issue latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2012/0… 3:08 PM May 15th via Tweet Button
RT @LATMAUGH: Check it out. Tell all your friends! The LA Times has a new Science blog, ScienceNow, "hosted by" me: latimes.com/news/science/s… 11:03 AM May 15th via Echofon
RT @BryanAGarner: “The writer exists for the sake of the reader, not the reader for the sake of the writer.” —Thomas DeQuincey 8:06 AM May 15th via Echofon
L.A. Times falls for Internet hoax, then sets the record straight lat.ms/KdgNcV 1:16 PM May 10th via dlvr.it
Postscript to dentist hoax: "No matter how fast the news is breaking, there's always time to find out the truth." lat.ms/JgUBtN 11:36 AM May 10th via web
RT @hfuhrmann: Why we correct, Part 2: Old mistakes come back to haunt, and into print, if they are not corrected. twitpic.com/9fnl4u 11:14 AM May 10th via Echofon
.@latimes was among those falling for the vengeful-dentist hoax: bit.ly/J05TBy | We've corrected: lat.ms/IlQBso 3:53 PM May 9th via web
RT @nytjim: For posterity. NYT: yfrog.com/oe6jubp LATimes: yfrog.com/g0opdxp HuffPost: yfrog.com/mnpxnp 12:51 PM May 9th via Echofon
RT @katemather: Is the proposed parking ticket fine hike in L.A. a good idea? Tell @latimes what you think: lat.ms/Jc7UgT 12:27 PM May 8th via TweetDeck
latimesbooks Books Editor Jon Thurber announces retirement from Los Angeles Times lat.ms/KDOfUE 11:12 AM May 7th via SocialFlow Retweeted by LATreadersrep and 6 others
Welcome to Twitter, @latimes Editor @davanmaharaj. 7:30 PM May 4th via Echofon
For #FF, I'm doing some long-overdue follow-backs. (Though I probably just scared several @latimes reporters.) Thanks for following! 11:58 AM May 4th via TweetDeck
'Several hundred' vs. 10,000: Debating May Day crowd estimates lat.ms/ILF47w 8:02 AM May 4th via dlvr.it
@Ombudsman Congrats! > RT @romenesko: Former NPR ombud and AJR writer Alicia Shepard to teach media ethics at UNLV bit.ly/Jj1Jq4 7:59 AM May 4th via Echofon
Video: David Horsey explains his creative process lat.ms/IJnykh 12:52 PM May 3rd via dlvr.it
L.A. riots: Readers respond to 20th anniversary coverage lat.ms/ImTyYz 2:08 PM May 2nd via dlvr.it

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Bio Live tweets from Los Angeles Times Readers' Rep Deirdre Edgar + feeds from the Readers' Representative Journal. Email me: readers.representative@latimes.com