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24 Jul

How do you know if you’re too close to your source?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Reporter working at computer_1.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Photo courtesy of Michelle-Andrea Girouard</em></p><p><strong>By Lindsay Fitzgerald</strong></p>

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22 Jul

CAJ ethics committee report: How close is too close?

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5 May

CAJ ethics committee case study: When to unpublish?

<p><strong>By Tim Currie</strong></p><p>Managing editors at online news outlets have likely heard a number of stories like these in the past few years: a law student charged in connection with a prank bomb threat finds his job prospects harmed months later—and wants the news story about those charges removed. Another man who once shared gritty details about his drug addiction for a feature story just wants to get on with his life—but says he can’t until his name disappears from the online story.</p>

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5 May

Star public editor: Journalists, sources and informed consent

<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_19.JPG" title="" /><strong>By Kathy English, public editor of the <em>Toronto Star</em></strong></p>

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21 Apr

Do journalists have an ethical obligation to moderate online conversations generated by their stories?

<p><strong>By Ellen van Wageningen</strong></p>

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21 Apr

Online comment moderation

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3 Mar

On the record: Is it really consent without talk of consequences?

<p><strong>By Esther Enkin</strong></p>

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3 Mar

What does informed consent really mean for journalists and their interview subjects?

<p><strong>By Meredith Levine</strong></p><p>I first encountered the literature on informed consent a decade ago when teaching professionalism to McMaster University medical students.</p><p>My interest in the topic was influenced by my experiences as a 13-year-old patient in a teaching hospital before <em>Reibl v Hughes</em>, the landmark 1980 Canadian Supreme Court decision that set the standard for informed consent in health care in this country and around the world.</p>

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3 Mar

Informed Consent

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12 Feb

News Blackouts

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