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18 Jul

“What is journalism?” A live discussion with CAJ report author Patrick Brethour

<p>On Thursday, July 19 we held an online talk about the CAJ Ethics Comittee's latest report: <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/what-journalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is Journalism?</a></p><p>The report identified three criteria that must be met in order for something to be considered journalism: A combination of evidence-based research with storytelling to inform communities about issues they value; An element of original production and; a conscious decision to provide clear and accurate facts, opinion and debate within a situation.</p>

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17 Jul

What is Journalism? The CAJ’s ethics committee takes a stab at definition

<p><em>When the Canadian Association of Journalists’ ethics advisory committee reluctantly took up the task of defining journalism, it struggled, at first, to find a way forward. Then, writes <strong>Patrick Brethour</strong>, it stumbled on a solution: define what journalism is not. The <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/what-journalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>result</u></a>: three simple tests, one tentative proposal.</em></p><p><strong>By Patrick Brethour</strong></p><p>There’s an old story about an artist who was once asked how he created such wonderfully life-like sculptures.</p>

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17 Jul

What is journalism?

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772922022279349" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_97772" scrolling="no" src="//www.scribd.com/embeds/206827644/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-79c65e41fu1nra7zutl&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe></p

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16 Nov

Best practices in digital accuracy and corrections

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772922022279349" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_99353" scrolling="no" src="//www.scribd.com/embeds/206827624/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-xdsuodb5wkat1byljat&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe></p

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20 Sep

CAJ Principles for Ethical Journalism

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772922022279349" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_93486" scrolling="no" src="//www.scribd.com/embeds/206827636/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-10aqf25v001p7wpixzpu&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe></

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20 Sep

CAJ Ethics Guidelines

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20 Sep

A guide, not a cop: the CAJ’s new ethics “code” (and why it’s not called that)

<p><em>The Canadian Association of Journalists has released a new Statement of Principles and revised its Ethical Guidelines. So why is the chair of the CAJ ethics committee, <strong>Ivor Shapiro</strong>, worried?  </em></p><p>Ethics codes make me nervous.</p>

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10 May

CAJ panel proposes ethics guidelines for digital age

The 2002-vintage ethics code of the Canadian Association of Journalists is certainly due for a revision—for one thing, it makes no mention of the Internet. Now, a panel of the […]

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19 Apr

“Aim for transparency”: CAJ releases guidelines for personal activity online

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772922022279349" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_79295" scrolling="no" src="//www.scribd.com/embeds/206827634/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-2dsc4mwc123tzzd39i7l&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe></

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30 Nov

Journalists seeking public office: what are the ethical issues?

<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772922022279349" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_48498" scrolling="no" src="//www.scribd.com/embeds/206827628/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-1p2r7py0fgzbp388wgx3&show_recommendations=true" width="100%"></iframe></

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