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3 Feb

Globe public editor: The distinction between editorial and advertising should be clear

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_53.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Recently, the news section included an article on Olympics design. The article was about the design of the Richmond Olympic Oval, built for the Vancouver Games. But a sidebar caused some confusion from a few readers.</p><p>The sidebar included a reference to an app and also to sponsorship by a car company.</p>

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3 Feb

Globe public editor: More irritating grammatical errors

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_51.JPG" title="" /></p><div><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></div><p>Recently, I wrote about readers’ pet peeves on <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/community/inside-the-globe/public-editor-the-top-five-grammatical-mistakes/article16499837/#dashboard/follows/" title="">grammatical errors</a> and I invited other readers to send me theirs.</p>

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3 Feb

Why are so many journalists willing to write for free?

<p><strong>By Kathleen Kuehn</strong></p><p>Last March, an editor from <em><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Atlantic</a></em> approached freelance journalist Nate Thayer about repurposing an article he’d published elsewhere for the news magazine’s website. Unfortunately, the editor informed him, freelance funds had run out. In lieu of payment, the opportunity would offer Thayer “exposure” to <em>The</em> <em>Atlantic</em>’s 13 million monthly readers.</p>

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31 Jan

CBC ombudsman: Does an interviewee’s perspective need to be accurate?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_35.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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31 Jan

Globe public editor: Are names always needed?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_49.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The death of so many seniors at the home in L’Isle-Verte is an almost unimaginable tragedy for the entire community and, of course, all of the friends and family members of those who died or are missing.</p>

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30 Jan

Star public editor: Zero tolerance for the manipulation of news photos

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Kathy English_2_1_15.JPG" title="" /></p><div><strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the<em> Toronto Star</em></strong></div><p>In journalism, the truth of images matters every bit as much as the truth of words.</p><p>Just as fabrication is the cardinal sin of those who write the news, manipulating pictures is the zero-tolerance transgression of those who photograph the news.</p>

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30 Jan

Globe public editor: The top five grammatical mistakes

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Stead_6_1_1_47.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The English language is tough to master – apparently even for those paid to write and edit it. Yes, that means newspaper pros. And readers notice when they get it wrong. They contact me about misplaced homophones, apostrophes and spelling errors.</p>

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30 Jan

CBC ombudsman: The fiction of race

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_32.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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30 Jan

Does an aboriginal Canadian need to be “drumming, dancing, drunk or dead” to make the news?

<p><strong>By Duncan McCue</strong></p><p>An elder once told me the only way an Indian would make it on the news is if he or she were one of the 4Ds: drumming, dancing, drunk or dead.</p><p>C’mon, I said, that’s simplistic. I can show you all kinds of different news stories—about aboriginal workers running a forestry operation, an aboriginal student winning a scholarship or an aboriginal group repatriating a sacred artifact.</p>

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29 Jan

Getting at the truth: Organic answers or misleading information?

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/Fruits_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Cecil Rosner</strong></p><p>In the delicate dialogue which media conduct daily with various levels of government, reporters sometimes come away with a feeling they are being misled.</p><p>It's not every day that proof of this suspicion surfaces. But that's exactly what happened in a recent story CBC reported on the testing of organic fruits and vegetables.</p>

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