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27 May

Education Matters: Should journalism schools take a stand on unpaid internships?

<p><strong>By Janice Tibbetts</strong></p><p>At Concordia University’s journalism department, we have been considering whether we should have a policy on unpaid internships.</p><p>The faculty—reflecting a sentiment common among many journalists—is conflicted on whether journalism schools and departments should post advertisements for work without pay, which could be interpreted as giving tacit support.</p>

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27 May

The Unknowable Country: Why journalists and governments no longer know what Canadians value

<p><strong>By Sean Holman</strong></p><p>As a result of a lack of federal government funding, Canada wasn't included in the most recent <a href="http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Values Survey</a>—one of the few means we have of knowing what our values are, how we differ from people in other countries and whether those values have changed over time.</p>

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26 May

Why some journalism grads no longer wait for a job offer

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Worsr_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Jimmy Thomson</strong></p>

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26 May

CBC ombudsman: One point of view at a time works for achieving balance

<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_6.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p>

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22 May

Globe public editor: More feedback on vague and troubling phrases

<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_5.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor of <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The debate over the phrase “known to police” continued online, on social media and in my inbox this weekend.</p><p>A number of people made the good point that it is not clear what the phrase means to the police or the readers.</p>

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22 May

Star public editor: Mindset matters in mental health reporting

<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_23.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div><div><div><div style="clear:none;"><p>In writing the haunting story of a young man who killed his mother in the middle of a psychotic episode, Star reporter Amy Dempsey was well aware of the challenges for journalists in writing about mental illness.</p>

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21 May

What’s the impact of all this data mining on the quality of journalism?

<p><strong>By Ira Basen, Future of News Editor</strong></p><p>What would you think if you knew that someone was monitoring how long it was taking you to read a story on your favourite website? And those same people also knew what device you were reading it on, what route you took to get to that page and how often you’d been there before.</p>

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21 May

CBC ombudsman: Common sense and conflict of interest

<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_11.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC ombudsman</strong></p>

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21 May

Globe public editor: Does ‘known to police’ imply guilt?

<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/Stead_18.JPG" title="" />A reader recently took The Globe and Mail to task for using the phrase “known to police.”</p><p>It showed up in an article last month about a rapper who was killed in what Toronto police described as “brazen” gunfire after a car chase early in the morning. Police said the man was known to police and lived a high-risk, criminal lifestyle.</p>

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21 May

Public editor: The rites and wrongs of spring—the Star’s blooming bungle

<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_21.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public Editor for the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p><div><div><div><div style="clear:none;"><p>In the seasons of our lives, the blossoming of spring is our annual rite of hope.</p>

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