Ian Mayes

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Ian Mayes is a British journalist and editor. He was formerly the readers' editor for The Guardian newspaper, and president of the international Organization of News Ombudsmen. He has often written about his former role at the Guardian and summarized it in 2004 in the British Journalism Review.

He is credited with the discovery of the "apostrofly", "an insect which lands at random on the printed page depositing an apostrophe wherever it alights".

[edit] Works

• Only Correct, The Best of Corrections and Clarifications edited by Ian Mayes (Guardian Books, 2005) ISBN 1-84354-465-2
• Corrections and Clarifications 2002 edited by Ian Mayes (Atlantic Books, 2002) ISBN 1-84354-173-4
• Corrections and Clarifications edited by Ian Mayes (Fourth Estate, 2000) ISBN 1-84115-608-6

[edit] External links

• Readers' Editor of The Guardian includes his Open Door column archives
• Corrections and Clarifications column in The Guardian
• Trust me, I'm an ombudsman, Ian Mayes, The British Journalism Review, Vol 14, No 2 2004 page 65-70.
• Organisation of News Ombudsmen official site
• The return of the apostrofly a brief history of the apostrofly
• "Recursive link to this Wiki article on Ian Mayes" in The Guardian 06 August 2005