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It's
easy to file your complaint about local or national news coverage.
Use
our Minnesota News Council online complaint form.
Our complaint process is fast and it's free!
Please
read these instructions,
then click on the FILE YOUR COMPLAINT
button below.
- When
you submit your complaint, the News Council will respond to you
within two business days.
- By
then we will have forwarded your complaint in its entirety to the
news organization you have named - unless your complaint does not
contain sufficient information or, for other reasons, could not
be forwarded.
- When
we forward your complaint to the news organization, this does not
mean the News Council has judged the validity of your complaint,
one way or the other. The News Council makes determinations only
in formal hearings, which come later in the process. The initial
complaint process seeks initial news organization accountability
- a response to your complaint from the news organization.
- The
News Council sets no specific journalistic standards or codes, and
does not require you to refer to any in your complaint. However,
it is very important that you establish a sound basis for why you
believe you have a valid complaint, and you may refer to ethics
codes of news organizations or others in doing so.
- You
may also review the outcomes of past hearings of the News Council
for examples of complaints heard, but you are not limited by the
types of complaints that reached News Council hearings.
- You
are not required to send a copy of the news story in question with
your email complaint form, but you are asked to state when and where
the news in question appeared. Complaints of a general nature are
strengthened when supported by as many specific examples as may
be found.
- We
ask the news organization to provide a prompt initial email response
to your complaint. If your complaint remains unresolved and meets
the conditions for a hearing, you may proceed toward a News Council
hearing to resolve it. You will be asked to submit a waiver document
agreeing to use the News Council, rather than the courts, to resolve
your issues with the news organization.
- The
entire News Council process is designed to make it possible for
persons to present complaints quickly and on their own. No legal
representation is required, and lawyers are not allowed to participate
in the formal process.
- Most
complaints will not require a hearing.
We
suggest that you:
Please let us begin the process of serving you - and the news organization.
QUESTIONS?
- NOW OR LATER - CONTACT US:
Minnesota News Council
Phone: 612-341-9357
Fax: 612-341-9358
Toll Free: 877- OUR NEWS
Email: info@news-council.org
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