Archive
23 Aug

Getting at the truth in the Mulroney-Schreiber affair

Harvey Cashore has a new book on the stands about the Airbus Affair. It’s called : The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-Year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, […]

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23 Aug

Interrogation, sensory deprivation and the CIA: A Canadian connection

Thirty-six years ago, Donald Capri was driving across the Redwood Bridge in Winnipeg when he spotted a body floating in the Red River. Police later identified the victim as Prof. […]

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23 Aug

North Saskactchewan radio gets government support

The Federal government has announced funding for the Missinipi Broadcasting Corporation to produce radio programming in English, Cree and Dene for communities in Northern Saskatchewan. Broadcaster Magazine reports: “The funding […]

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23 Aug

Will Harper move against CRTC on Sun TV?

A Globe and Mail column by Lawrence Martin suggests that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will stack the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission with his own people in an effort to […]

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23 Aug

Guidelines for re-posting stories

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23 Aug

NYU guide to good journalism practices

The New York University handbook for journalism ethics, law and good practices is chockful of useful information and guidelines for journalists. This guide is unique. It is more than the […]

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23 Aug

Photojournalism ethics

By Carolynne Burkholder Pictures are worth 1,000 words – in the newspaper business that equals about 25 inches of print. Images are one of the most powerful forms of communication, […]

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23 Aug

The ethics of feature writing

In his book, The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro includes a chapter about the ethics of feature writing. In Chapter 10 of The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro writes of “the seductive […]

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23 Aug

Codes of ethics

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23 Aug

Emotion in reporting: use and abuse

Reporters are not automatons, but emotion in journalism can be manipulated, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. When is expression of emotions self-promotion or self-congratulation and when is it true compassion? The […]

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