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21 Nov

CBC ombudsman: The ethics of interviews

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-medium-left inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium-left/images/Enkin_13_1_13.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman</strong></p><p>Ideas broadcast a documentary which explores the impact of internet pornography on young men. Gary Wilson is one of the experts featured in it. His wife, Marnia Robinson, who works with him, wrote to complain that she and her husband had been misled about the areas to be used from the interview.</p>

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15 Nov

Vancouver Sun denies allowing Carol Todd to read its articles before publication

<p>The <em>Vancouver Sun</em> denies allowing Carol Todd, the mother of bullied teenager Amanda Todd, to screen their coverage before publication.</p>

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14 Nov

Ward’s Words: Do ethics, not definitions

<p><strong>By Stephen Ward</strong></p><p>Ironically, journalists—a group normally reluctant to theorize—are today up to their ears in definitions, a favourite activity of philosophers. For some time, journalists and their associations have been trying anxiously to define “journalist” and “journalism” as a media revolution blurs the differences between professional journalists and citizens. I have some bad news for this definition-making industry.</p>

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13 Nov

Should media pay for news?

<p><strong>By Ross Howard</strong></p>

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12 Nov

Crossing the line? The controversy sparked by Carol Todd’s blog post

<p><em>The Vancouver Sun won the 2013 Jack Webster Award for Best Reporting of the Year in Print for its coverage of Amanda Todd—who committed suicide after posting a video detailing being bullied.</em> <em>But a blog post by Todd’s mother, Carol, that described how the Sun's stories came about raised eyebrows in the journalism community. Then the blog post was edited and later removed entirely. Mount Royal journalism professor </em><em><strong>Brad Clark </strong></em><em>spoke to J-Source reporter Eric Mark Do about the ethical concerns.</em></p>

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9 Nov

Vancouver Sun’s supposed handling of Amanda Todd coverage raises ethical questions

<p><strong>By Ross Howard</strong></p><p>Ultimately, nobody looks good when a reporter covering a heartbreaking story crosses the line and become a victim’s friend, grief counsellor and public relations adviser.</p><p>That is what <em>Vancouver Sun</em> reporter Gillian Shaw and photographer Mark Yuen did, according to the mother of Vancouver teenager Amanda Todd, who committed suicide last year after being bullied.    </p>

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21 Oct

Ward’s Words: Putting transparency in its place

<p><strong>By Stephen Ward</strong></p><p>Transparency, according to optimistic accounts, is the answer to bad government and wrong doing by corporations and news media. Let the “sunshine” of transparency enter the public domain and watch these evil forces retreat.</p><p>Transparency—monitoring how agencies operate—goes back to the trumpeting of “publicity” as a check on secretive government in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.</p>

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7 Oct

A survey of press council models outside Canada

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>“An ongoing issue at the Ontario Press Council was how to get noticed. Um, nailed it?” <a href="https://twitter.com/robedits/statuses/377136349503315968" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> <em>Canada.com</em> editor Rob Granatstein after last month's hearings into <em>The Toronto Star </em>and <em>The Globe and Mail</em>'s coverage of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.</p>

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7 Oct

Intern’s response to in-house plagiarism at Toronto Star called “courageous”

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23 Sep

CBC denies accepting money from Parks Canada in exchange for positive stories

<p><strong>By Jennifer McGuire, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC</strong></p>

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