Archive
30 Oct

CBC ombudsman: Balance maintained in coverage of sex ed in Calgary schools

<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_1.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

READ MORE
29 Oct

Misidentification of protestors constitutes code breach: Canadian Broadcast Standards Council

<p>The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) released its <a href="http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2013/131023.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> concerning an episode of <em>The Source</em> broadcast on Sun News Network on January 23, 2013. The host of the public affairs discussion program misidentified protestors in a video clip. The CBSC found the station in violation of the CAB Code of Ethics for the error.

READ MORE
29 Oct

CBC ombudsman: Twerking is not a four-letter word

<p><strong><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Enkin_13_1_3.jpg" title="" />By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman </strong></p>

READ MORE
29 Oct

Globe public editor: “None” is always singular, right? Not so fast

<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_3.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

READ MORE
28 Oct

The Unknowable Country

<p><strong>By Sean Holman</strong></p><p>"Freedom of information is the expression of Canadians' core values. It is fundamental to the functioning of democracy."</p>

READ MORE
27 Oct

Star public editor: Typos won’t go away, no matter how we try

<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_1.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">By Kathy English, public editor of <em>The Toronto Star</em></strong></p>

READ MORE
27 Oct

Globe public editor: The art of the flu vaccine

<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_1.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.984375px;">By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p>

READ MORE
26 Oct

Ingram: What journalists must do when information is everywhere

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson, Education Editor</strong></p><p>Journalists need to embrace their changing role as a trusted curator and aggregator of news, <a href="https://twitter.com/mathewi" target="_blank" title="Follow Ingram on Twitter" rel="noopener">Mathew Ingram</a> said at a recent <a href="http://www.meetup.com/third-tuesday-ottawa/events/144262962/" target="_blank" title="more on that event here" rel="noopener">Third Tuesday event</a> in Ottawa.</p>

READ MORE
25 Oct

ONA13: three lessons learned for student journalists

<p><strong>By Arik Ligeti</strong></p><p>Back in May, I was sitting in a Budapest hotel lobby at 3 a.m. with my laptop, trying to answer this question: If you ran into Google’s CEO, what would you ask? I was filling out an application to participate in the Online News Association’s <a href="http://newsroom13.journalists.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Student Newsroom</a>; I was thankful for the time difference.</p>

READ MORE
24 Oct

Behind-the-scenes: How UBC journalism students uncovered the roots of global illegal logging

<p><strong>By Keith Rozendal</strong></p><p>We covered 29,000 kilometres in 11 days to get our story. Why? It’s on our course syllabus.</p>

READ MORE