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4 Jul

Police chief slams media’s decision to broadcast officer’s SOS call; files complaint

By now, you’ve probably read, or heard, Const. Garrett Style’s SOS call. Many media outlets (the Toronto Star, Canadian Press, CBC, CTV News…) made the decision last week to print, […]

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22 Jun

CBC Ombudsman: New reviews finished and others launched

CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe recently announced the release of two reviews, and his agreement to conduct three more. The first completed review involves a complaint regarding the language co-host Kevin […]

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20 Jun

Chequebook journalism

Is chequebook journalism resurfacing? Check out CBC Ombudsman Kirk LaPointe’s blog, themediamanager.com, which highlights two recent cases in the States. In one case, ABC paid a woman who received texts […]

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16 Jun

The ethics of reporting on baby Storm: did journalists make a mistake?

Earlier this week, Margaret Somerville, director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law and McGill University, wrote a story for The Mark questioning whether journalists made a mistake when […]

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24 May

Live coverage from the Organization of News Ombudsmen 2011 Conference

What happens when you put dozens of public editors from around the world into the same room? Plenty of fascinating discussion on ethics, lessons learned, and the changing media landscape. […]

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20 May

ASNE’s best practice guidelines for editors creating social news policies

In case you missed it, or haven’t had a chance to read the full report yet, here are the top 10 takeaways from the recently released American Society of News […]

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17 May

The little lies that photos can tell

For all the fuss over presidential re-dos and digital fakery, Anne McNeilly writes that the tougher questions around truth in photojournalism are sometimes also the subtlest. When U.S. President Barack […]

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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

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11 Apr

When it comes to journos, what’s fair on Facebook?

When the Toronto Star‘s new social media policy leaked, many journalists were tempted to brand it with a fail stamp. Not so fast, says Star public editor Kathy English. In […]

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