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17 Sep

Should suicide be reported?

The Globe and Mail’s Andre Picard reports on the recent suicide of a 19-year-old law student who jumped from a high rise residence at the University of Ottawa, and asks: […]

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15 Sep

Journalism in the entrepreneurial age

Funding experiments are welcome and there’s nothing wrong with journalists looking for new ways to pay for reporting, writes Stephen J.A. Ward. But why assume funding from a foundation is […]

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10 Sep

Times reporter freed from captivity, news blackout lifted

New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell is the second Times journalist in the last year to be kidnapped in Afghanistan, and the company kept both kidnappings out of the media […]

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25 Aug

Wente and Dowd cell phone columns: Too close to call?

A column by The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente so closely resembles one written by The New York Times‘s Maureen Dowd that at least one blog is suggesting she stole […]

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6 Aug

Should the NY Times lose the public editor position?

The public editor position was created at The New York Times after it was discovered that reporter Jayson Blair was making things up. Is the role going to remain a […]

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16 Jun

Let the public help guide journalism ethics

ByStephen J. A. WardFor too long, journalists have indulged in cant about how their standards meet the expectations of the public, and how they seek public input on ethical issues. […]

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9 Jun

News? Not in our backyard…

ByDon Sellar It’s a fact. Bedrock journalistic principles and news judgment can quickly fall by the wayside when media outlets or their corporate interests are in the news, especially in […]

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3 Jun

CTV reports on secret documents left behind at news studio

After waiting six days, CTV News reported secret information found in a binder Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt, or one of her aides, left at its news studio after an […]

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28 May

Standards council rules on ethics of CTV’s Dion interview

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled that CTV’s airing of false starts during a television interview with then Liberal leader Stéphane Dion violated industry ethics codes, CBC reports. The Council […]

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12 May

Readers’ letters: where is the free-speech line?

By John Hayden A year ago this February, I picked up a copy of the Cobourg Daily Star [since consolidated with two other papers to form Northumberland Today] and found […]

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