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20 Feb

Interviewing Children: Paul Benedetti’s Dilemma

<p><em>He understands why we do it, but <strong>Paul Benedetti</strong> is having second thoughts about the ethics of interviewing children and youth. Benedetti is an award-winning columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and program co-ordinator for the graduate program in Journalism at Western University. He’s struggling to put his finger on exactly what’s making him uneasy – but he says his sense of unease is growing.</em></p><p>Lately, I have grown increasingly uneasy about journalists’ use of children and youth in their stories.</p>

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8 Apr

News kids can use

Globe and Mail education reporter Kate Hammer profiles a news website for kids in her article TeachKidsNews.com brings the world to the classroom. Developed by two Toronto teachers, and running […]

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6 Oct

Politicians setting news agenda, not journalists

BySue Ferguson Thank goodness somebody finally started talking about it. Childcare, that is. For the first two weeks of campaigning, barely a whisper could be heard. And then Family Day […]

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22 May

Kids News Network

This initiative of the Dutch NGO, Free Voice, sets two interlinked goals: giving kids a voice in the news media and improving the overall quality of the news media. The […]

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22 May

Children and the media quicksand

British solicitor Amber Melville-Brown reviews recent court challenges dealing with the rights of children not to be photographed when in a public space. Her examples include cases launched by celebrities […]

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7 Jan

Gag orders in a Facebook age

Following the release of 14-year-old murder victim Stephanie Rengel’s name to the public, the Toronto Star looks at how Facebook and other websites are testing legal restrictions on publishing names involved in youth […]

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10 Dec

Kids: What’s a journalist to do?

This September, after leaving an Etobicoke house party, 17-year-old Taylor Whitney fell down a steep embankment of a ravine near the Humber River and died. The press zeroed in on […]

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1 Nov

Some children more newsworthy than others?

The press loves children… but it loves some more than others. A report for the Toronto-based Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation examines the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail […]

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17 Aug

Child Characteristics Which Impact Accuracy of Recall

Child Characteristics Which Impact Accuracy of Recall and Suggestibility in Preschoolers: Is Age the Best Predictor? By Lane geddie, Sasha Fradin, and Jessica Beer Child Abuse & Neglect, Vol. 24, […]

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17 Aug

The Global Village

The Global Village: A textual analysis of Olympic news coverage for children in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Elli P. Lester-Roushanzamir and Usha Raman Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Winter99, Vol. 76 […]

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