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12 May

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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12 May

Finding balance in a land of limited access

Riots in Tibet and mounting protest against the Beijing summer Olympics have spotlighted the problems of Chinese media and reporting from China. In this feature article for JournalismEthics.ca, Luke Johnson, […]

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28 Apr

Credibility gap in BC murder case

As details emerge in the story of Allan Schoenborn, the man accused of slaying his three children in Merritt, B.C., the initial coverage of the case looks more and more […]

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14 Mar

Communication Breakdown at a University Lockdown

An RCMP Emergency Response Team swarmed the University of B.C. campus on Wednesday, January 31. With bulletproof vests and dogs, police spent the better part of the afternoon in the […]

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27 Feb

The Halifax Daily News: 1974 – 2008

What does the unceremonious folding of the Daily News mean for Halifax? For journalism? In this feature article for JournalismEthics.ca, former columnist and journalism professor Stephen Kimber tracks the rise […]

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11 Feb

Rethinking balance in post-genocide Rwanda

Last spring, after a five-week visit to Rwanda, veteran television journalist Claude Adams produced two news pieces for the CBC. Together, the stories challenged the prevailing view about healing and […]

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21 Jan

CBC reporter reassigned after Tories complain

CBC releases response to Conservative Party of Canada complaint         TORONTO, Jan. 21 /CNW/ – CBC News today released the following letter:         Doug Finley,         Director […]

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21 Jan

One on one with a Burmese child-soldier

“In a Burmese border town cafe, in the midst of a military crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, a recently-fled child-soldier sat with me, talking about cell phones and girls,” begins Kendyl […]

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10 Dec

Kids: What’s a journalist to do?

This September, after leaving an Etobicoke house party, 17-year-old Taylor Whitney fell down a steep embankment of a ravine near the Humber River and died. The press zeroed in on […]

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31 Oct

Teaching online journalism ethics

Journalists using social networking sites, photo sharing sites and other new media technologies to gather information face new ethical challenges. Journalists are being forced to re-evaluate such questions as “What is […]

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