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13 Aug

Globe public editor: Coverage should treat suicide as a public health issue

<p><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/Sylvia Stead_28.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Every suicide is a tragedy. It shows how hard life can be for some people, how much they struggle with finding joy and happiness and how unrelenting mental illness can be. And it causes a great deal of pain to many people who loved that person and tried to help.</p>

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12 Aug

Education Matters: Should we teach journalism students to write in the first person?

<p><strong>By Janice Tibbetts</strong></p><p>In a few weeks, when I meet about 50 first-year students in my introductory journalism classes, one of the first things I will tell them is to keep the words “I,” “me,” “we” and “us” out of their stories. Journalism, after all, is about telling the stories of others and not drawing attention to yourself.</p>

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11 Aug

Ombudswoman: Brunswick News needs more female voices

<p><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/Patricia Graham_11.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Patricia Graham, Brunswick News ombudswoman</strong></p><p>The timing was serendipitous. In late June, three university professors published a research paper titled “Where are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages”. The answer was neither unusual nor unfamiliar: they are still too few and far between on opinion pages.</p>

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11 Aug

Public editor: Why can’t the Toronto Star interview Omar Khadr?

<p><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/Kathy English_39.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>Guantanamo’s child is all grown up now, a man imprisoned since the age of 15 and prepared to tell his own story.</p>

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7 Aug

A moment of silence for CBC in Thunder Bay

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/CBC TB funeral.jpg" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>On June 28, CBC listeners attended a mock funeral in Thunder Bay, Ont., complete with a casket symbolizing Voyage North which airs its last show on Aug. 8. All photos courtesy of Josh Lynn.</em></p><p><strong>By Josh Lynn</strong></p>

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7 Aug

Globe public editor: Crowd estimate depends on your point of view

<p><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/Sylvia Stead_26.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>So, just how many people were at two recent events in the country? The short answer is, it depends on a rough estimate and who is doing the estimate.</p>

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31 Jul

Statement from jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy

<p><em>Al Jazeera English</em> journalist Mohamed Fahmy released the following statement to Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) through his family. Facing the difficult decision of whether to appeal his guilty verdict to the same corrupt judiciary that unjustly convicted him in the first place, Fahmy addresses the plight that he and his colleagues are facing.</p>

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28 Jul

Star public editor: Is Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell playing politics with the truth?

<p><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/Kathy English_35.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of <em>The Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>Is Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell playing politics with the truth?</p>

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28 Jul

Globe public editor: Obituaries pay tribute to notable lives but often with errors difficult to avoid

<p><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/Sylvia Stead_24.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>Of all the pages in a newspaper, the obituary page is the most likely to be kept, framed and shared. To have an obituary in The Globe is a tribute to those who have lived notable lives, and the writers and editors hate to see a mistake mar that honour.</p>

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25 Jul

CBC ombudsman: Kids can be seen and heard

<p><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/Esther Enkin_30.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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