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7 May

Using hidden cameras ethically

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Hidden camera_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>Hidden cameras—by their very name—sound surreptitious, deceptive and the opposite of what journalism is supposed to stand for—transparency.</p>

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6 May

Did the Globe buy the news or just the Rob Ford pictures?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Ford cover_2.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CAN_TGAM&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newseum</a></em></p><p><strong>By Ross Howard</strong></p>

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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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2 May

Ward’s Words: An ethics reform must include the public

<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/Stephen Ward_0.PNG" title="" /> <strong>By Stephen J. A. Ward</strong></p><p>Professional news organizations and associations are seeking—or forced?— to rewrite their codes of ethics in the face of overwhelming change to journalism. </p>

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1 May

Why the Globe paid $10,000 for Rob Ford photos

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Ford cover_0.JPG" title="" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Image courtesy of <a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CAN_TGAM&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newseum</a></em></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p>

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1 May

Globe public editor: The case for paying for Rob Ford photographs

<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_2.JPG" title="" /> <strong>By Sylvia Stead, public editor for <em>The Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p>The Globe and Mail did something that I think has not happened before, and that was to pay a source $10,000 for a series of photographs showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what was described by a drug dealer as crack cocaine. The payment was to an admitted drug dealer.</p>

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24 Apr

CBC makes changes to paid speeches policy

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/CBC_6.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja, Associate Editor</strong></p><p>The CBC has made several changes to its policies about paid speeches following the recent controversy of prominent journalists Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy accepting payments from members of the oil industry.</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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