Evaluation 

The Council is interested in improving its procedures and hearings and seeks feedback from participants to help us to do so.  News Council staff will send both parties an evaluation form a week after the hearing.

Publicity

Immediately following a public hearing, the Executive Director will prepare a news release.  The release is first approved by the Council chairman, and then released to the complainant, the respondent news outlet, the Minnesota Newspaper Association and to all major news outlets in the state.  The news release will also be posted to the News Council Web site.

A final, formal determination is prepared by Council staff.  It contains relevant background, a summary of the complaint, response and the exact wording of the hearing question(s) as well as highlights from the hearing and the final vote.  Council members may submit dissenting or supporting opinions to the determination as well; the document is then posted to the Web site.

If the two parties reach resolution before a hearing, a brief description of the complaint and resolution will be reported in News Council’s newsletter.   The parties may agree that their names and identifying information will be removed from the reportable record – if they do not, the names will be reported.

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