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22 May

Opinion: The press owes the public more than repeating gossip on the alleged Ford video

<p><strong>By Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith Fullerton</strong></p><p>Much of the Canadian press has bet its credibility that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was indeed caught smoking crack on a smart-phone video that <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/16/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal.html">two <em>Toronto Star </em>reporters</a> viewed in the back seat of car.</p>

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20 May

Opinion: Media’s latest stories on Toronto’s Mayor Ford a challenge for a court fight

<p><strong>By Paul Benedetti, J-Source Editor-at-Large</strong></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">The latest Mayor Rob Ford scandal reminds me of a teaching example I have used for several years now.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Each spring I teach new journalism students and one of our first lessons is about the real role of a reporter.</span></p>

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17 May

Opinion: Crackgate – Star’s rush to publish alleged Rob Ford crack-cocaine story unsatisfactory

<p><strong>By John Gordon Miller</strong></p>

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17 May

Opinion: Rob Ford stole the show on a frenzied news night

<p><strong style="font-size: 10px;">By Nick Taylor-Vaisey, for <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/05/17/rob-ford-stole-the-show-on-a-frenzied-news-night/">Maclean's</a></strong></p><p>Shocking news is hard to believe. Last night, there was lots of news, plenty of it shocking. The sun was setting on another day, literally, when newsrooms tore up their front pages and started from scratch.</p>

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17 May

Opinion: The National Newspaper Awards don’t reflect journalism in the digital era

<p><strong>By Melanie Coulson</strong></p><p dir="ltr">Gird yourself, I’m about to attack a Canadian journalism institution: <a href="http://www.nna-ccj.ca/" target="_blank" title="Honouring the best in Canadian Journalism since 1949" rel="noopener">The National Newspaper Awards</a>.</p><p>It has taken me a couple of weeks to write this post. No, scratch that. This has been years in the making.</p>

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17 May

The Gawker-Toronto Star cat fight about the Rob Ford “exclusive”

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Gawker.PNG" title="" /></p><p><strong>Last night, Gawker posted a video for sale allegedly starring Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. The video became the subject of a frenzied discussion on Twitter, with many cautioning about libel laws. And then started the hilarious cat fight on Twitter about who got the "exclusive."</strong></p>

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17 May

B.C. polling gaffe a blessing for journalism

<p><strong>By Rob Washburn, J-Source Innovation editor</strong></p><p>There are a lot of pollsters pacing the floor in office towers across British Columbia after an abysmal performance predicting election results Tuesday night</p><p>But what is bad for the polling business may be good for journalism. The results of the provincial election in British Columbia has pollsters scratching their collective heads as the Liberals won handily over the NDP. </p>

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15 May

Opinion: Why all journalists should study public relations

<p><strong>By Ira Basen, J-Source Future of News editor</strong></p>

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14 May

Opinion: The Globe and Mail murky on how its error ridden pro-BC Liberal editorial was crafted

<p><strong>By David Beers, for <a href="http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/05/13/Globe-Editorial/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=140513"><em>The Tyee</em></a></strong></p>

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7 May

Moving tribute from Ottawa Citizen to Boston Globe

<p><em>Ottawa Citizen</em>'s deputy editorial pages editor Kate Heartfield wrote a moving tribute to the <em>Boston Globe </em>saluting their coverage of the marathon bombing.</p><p>Heartfield <a href="http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/newspaper+heart+city/8322784/story.html#ixzz2SceQB7Ls">writes</a> she toyed with the idea of sending them pizza - "If there’s one thing that ties journalists together, it’s newsroom pizza." But instead she wrote this tribute, "because I work for a newspaper, and this is how I say thank you."</p>

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