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23 Aug

NYU guide to good journalism practices

The New York University handbook for journalism ethics, law and good practices is chockful of useful information and guidelines for journalists. This guide is unique. It is more than the […]

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23 Aug

Photojournalism ethics

By Carolynne Burkholder Pictures are worth 1,000 words – in the newspaper business that equals about 25 inches of print. Images are one of the most powerful forms of communication, […]

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23 Aug

The ethics of feature writing

In his book, The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro includes a chapter about the ethics of feature writing. In Chapter 10 of The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro writes of “the seductive […]

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23 Aug

Codes of ethics

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23 Aug

Emotion in reporting: use and abuse

Reporters are not automatons, but emotion in journalism can be manipulated, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. When is expression of emotions self-promotion or self-congratulation and when is it true compassion? The […]

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23 Aug

Carrying a torch for ethics

With any other controversial story involving $2 billion in taxpayers’ money, journalists would fall over themselves to cultivate a critical approach, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. Why is it different with […]

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23 Aug

Protection of sources

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20 Aug

Why it’s better to be a man

Toronto Star columnist Heather Mallick on why she wishes she was born a man (she’d be a more successful journalist, for one). “I always regretted being born female. True, it […]

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20 Aug

Guess which Toronto newspaper….

Not-a-lot-of-skill-testing question: which “local newspaper” does the Toronto Star mean when it reports: “Two and a half hours earlier, Ford was hosting a news conference to explain why it appeared […]

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16 Aug

Journalist invited to “off-the-record” policy retreat

The Federal government has invited key policy players including CEOs, academics, lobbyists and (the only journalist) Maclean’s columnist Andrew Coyne to a two-day, “off-the-record” policy retreat. The Sun‘s David Akin […]

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