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Verity Ashcombe-Doyle

Public Editor

The Reader's Advocate — criticism of this newspaper

readers-advocate@theyburied.com · At this paper since 2019

The public editor is hired on a five-year non-renewable contract, reports to the readers rather than the editor, and cannot be fired for what she writes. Verity Ashcombe-Doyle spent fourteen years as an ombudsman in the regional press before taking the post. Her column, The Reader's Advocate, is the only place in the paper where the paper is the subject.

Disclosures

Her contract prohibits her from accepting any other work from They Buried during or within two years of her term. She does not attend news meetings.

Work by Ashcombe-Doyle