Siobhain Butterworth  Siobhain Butterworth, like all newspaper
ombudsmen, has the pretty sweet job of telling everybody when
her employer messes up. As the readers' editor at London's The
Guardian, she investigates complaints from the paper's faithful
readers, then opines about and examines them for her amusing
weekly column. From week to week, depending on what readers are
saying about the paper, she writes about grammatical gaffes,
whether bloggers need to be held accountable, and protecting
both privacy and the free press. But when Butterworth, who is
also a lawyer, comes to the U's journalism school this week,
she'll be focusing on legal issues journalists tend to get
embroiled in. The title of her lecture is "Raise Your Hand If
You're a Journalist: Does Responsible Reporting Need a Legal
Defense?" Her work offering legal advice to The Guardian and
advocating for readers puts her in a unique position to see
journalism and the law from both sides. And given the number of
journalists arrested and physically