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How to contact the readers' editor
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To make a correction, or raise an issue about the Observer, with the Readers' editor: Write to: Readers' Editor
The Observer
Kings Place
90 York Way
London
N1 9GU
Tel: 020 3353 4656
Email: reader@observer.co.uk
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This page means you can air your views the minute you have them
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Corrections
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The Observer's weekly corrections and clarifications column
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Readers' editor column
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Read Observer readers' editor Stephen Pritchard's latest columns here
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Gender issues
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Stephen Pritchard: Women - half the world's population - are barely present in the faces seen, voices heard and opinions expressed in the world's media, claimed a report published last week. Who Makes the News? made shaming reading
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New look Observer
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Stephen Pritchard: 'Like a girl I used to know: lovely to look at and lovely to hold, but the flaws are found later,' is just one wry remark among the many thousands of emails and letters bristling with both praise and condemnation for the Observer's new, full-colour format
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Beefing up
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Stephen Pritchard: Newspapers employ several devices to persuade you to read a story, headlines and photographs being the most obvious
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Accuracy
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Two weeks ago, the Observer published a story about the death in Moscow of Irish MP Liam Lawlor. Last week, we apologised for key elements in the story and announced that we were conducting an internal inquiry into the story. Here, our Readers' Editor Stephen Pritchard explains what happened.
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Stephen Pritchard: Eye witnesses swore our report of a stormy meeting was false. So what was the truth?
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Advertising-editorial clashes
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Stephen Pritchard: Journalists striving to be balanced and fair are used to accusations of bias when their writing doesn't chime with the views of a particular pressure group or lobby. When their work is linked to advertising the problem multiplies 10-fold
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Stephen Pritchard: The shocking story of Danielle Beccan, gunned down as she walked home from a Nottingham fair, made the Observer 's front page recently
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Cooking
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Stephen Pritchard: Spinach rarely crosses the readers' editor's radar, but my ceaseless desire to represent you found me phoning my local Sainsbury's last weekend, ordering 6 kgs of the stuff
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Mental illness and families
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Stephen Pritchard: Parents coping with the distress of schizophrenia in their children have been caused further pain, a well-organised campaign would have us believe, by a series of articles in the Observer Magazine
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Living our values
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guardian.co.uk has launched a new section called Living our values which looks at how we as an organisation measure up to the high standards outlined by the Scott Trust which owns us
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Unsuitable subjects
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Stephen Pritchard: Our celebrity antennae slipped off-station last month when we chose music entrepreneur Jonathan King - a convicted paedophile - for our regular diet feature, Health Check
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Sub-editing
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Stephen Pritchard: Every piece in this newspaper goes through a rigorous editing process: nobody's copy is sacred. But there is sometimes a danger that 'improvements' can spill over into misrepresentation
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Stephen Pritchard: The rules that govern how The Observer wields its hyphens, dashes and accents are being rewritten
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Stephen Pritchard: Headline writing is an art. Look through the paper today and you will find heavy hitters on news and business stories, softer, more reflective examples on features, and a sprinkling of witty puns, particularly on arts and comment pages
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Freedom of the press
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Stephen Pritchard: Whether we believe the Hutton report to be a whitewash or a balanced and rational judgment, journalism is under attack as never before
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Iran earthquake
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Stephen Pritchard: Was the Observer right last week to publish a front-page photograph of two children - victims of the Iranian earthquake - being carried to their graves by their grieving father?
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Body shape
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Stephen Pritchard: The media's notion that thinliness is next to godliness plays havoc with vulnerable young minds
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Media watchdogs
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Stephen Pritchard: Our ombudsman joins media watchdogs worldwide to ask how well the war in Iraq was reported
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Plagiarism
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Reader's editor Stephen Pritchard says that all newspapers and journalists must feed off each other. So when does that become plagiarism?
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Dirty tricks at the UN
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Stephen Pritchard: The everyday use of a piece of simple computer technology placed this newspaper at the centre of a storm last week, prompting a record number of visits to our website
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More comment and reaction
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US media commentator Norman Solomon asks why the American media seems keen to downplay allegations of espionage at the United Nations
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Martin Bright reflects on the reaction to last week's Observer dirty tricks scoop and finds that the quality of transatlantic dialogue can be quite quickly improved
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How the Observer broke the story
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Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members
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The text of the memorandum detailing the US plan to bug the phones and emails of key Security Council members, as revealed in the Observer
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The Observer on Iraq
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Stephen Pritchard: Just how are decisions reached about what goes in and what stays out of the Observer?
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Observer Leader: Military intervention in the Middle East holds many dangers. But if we want a lasting peace it may be the only option
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Stephen Pritchard: We received hundreds of letters and emails supporting and opposing the paper's position. We publish some of them here
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Stephen Pritchard: We received many emails on the Observer's leader last week from our international readership. Here is a selection of your views.
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More from the Readers' editor
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Stephen Pritchard: Definitions may be muddled in the hunt for the ideal headline
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Readers' editor Stephen Pritchard answers questions about our choice of words
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Stephen Pritchard puts paid to the errant apostrophe
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Stephen Pritchard: Millions around the world wake up every day to the deadening hand of censorship; they go to the newsstand knowing that official bigotry will have got there before them
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Stephen Pritchard: The Observer passes another multi-millenary milepost in its pursuit of truth and happiness
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Stephen Pritchard: Yes, if it means exposing Hull's drug problems. Though John Prescott seems to disagree
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Stephen Pritchard: 'If we can't trust what the press report, how can we tell whether to trust those on whom they report?' asked Onora O'Neil in her BBC Reith lecture last week, a question neatly echoed - and partly answered - across the Atlantic as the dark clouds of press regulation begin to gather on the US horizon
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Stephen Pritchard: 'It is not funny, satirical or even amusing and shows disrespect for those who died'... 'Your callousness is breathtaking'... 'The most tasteless item of journalism I have ever read.'
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Stephen Pritchard: Newspapers are often accused of making glib assumptions about readers, but the industry actually spends a lot of time and money trying to understand its consumers
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Stephen Pritchard: There's an art to getting your letter printed in a newspaper... stick to the point and don't use green ink
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we're very good, you say. But then we go and spoil it all. Many of you praised our coverage of the campaign against terrorism
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Stephen Pritchard: 'The first casualty when war comes is truth,' said Hiram Warren Johnson in a speech to the US Senate in 1917. He might have added that the second is language
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Stephen Pritchard: How much do you know about your paper? A new project to bring the history to life
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Stephen Pritchard: My postbag bulges, my email queue fills up and my telephone rings off its cradle whenever we take a careless metropolitan view of the rest of the nation
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Stephen Pritchard: 'Yours is one of a number of papers which regularly produces sections which are of great interest to some of your readers but of no interest to others,' writes a searingly honest Open University environmental studies student
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Stephen Pritchard: What do we mean by the word 'hero'? It's a favourite term in the newspaper trade; it's instantly recognisable, and, alleluia, it's short - a gift for any headline writer
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Stephen Pritchard: David Astor once said: 'A newspaper matters only because it has the right readers and has a grip on them... It's your readers and not you who really have the weight.'
Observer readers' editor
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Stephen Pritchard is president of the Organisation of News Ombudsmen and the Observer's first readers' editor, a post he has held since 2001
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