Margo Smit

Margo Smit is ombudsman for journalistic content at the Dutch public broadcasting system, since 2017. Before that, she was news ombudsman at NOS, the Dutch public news provider. Till summer of 2015, Smit was an independent investigative TV-documentary filmmaker and director of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists VVOJ. Smit is president of ONO, the organization of news ombuds and standard and public editors and vice-chair of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. Smit studied journalism in the United States. In 1989 she began working as a news and features reporter for Dutch commercial TV station RTL and later as their political correspondent.  In 1997, she transferred to KRO Reporter, an investigative television documentary series on Dutch public TV, where she worked till 2009. She then was director of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Reporters VVOJ till 2015 and a journalism teacher at several universities. Smit was a juror for the Daniel Pearl Award, the M.J. Brusseprijs for non-fiction in the Dutch language, the DIG Awards for investigative documentaries (Italy), the Global Shining Light Award and the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (UNESCO).