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19 Sep

Live blog: Gawking, Gossip And Crowdfunding: Is This The New Journalism?

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3 Sep

Ontario Press Council: Why we hold media to account

<p><strong>By Don McCurdy, executive diretor of the Ontario Press Council</strong></p><div style="clear:none;"><p>Why is the Ontario Press Council putting the recent high-profile reporting on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Toronto Councillor Doug Ford, under a public microscope?</p></div><div style="clear:none;"><p>It’s all about transparency and accountability.</p>

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17 Jul

Some journalists and news organizations took government funding to produce work: is that a problem?

<p><em>*Update:</em> <em>The news department of Global Television never took CIDA cash, according to senior vice president Troy Reeb. <br /><br />In response to the original J-Source article, Reeb says "it would clearly be a violation of our principles and practices to do that."<br /><br />J-Source originally reported that Global received CIDA cash to finance programming. According to a government database, over $150,000 went to documentaries that would later air on Global Television.<br />

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16 Jul

Discussion on real-time ethics

<p><strong>"Should a newsroom control what reporters are tweeting from their personal accounts? Should factually incorrect posts or tweets be deleted? How do you ensure the content from social media is original and unaltered?"</strong></p>

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5 Jul

Journalists publicized the inside of B.C. terror suspects’ home: Public interest or legal and ethical dilemma?

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>Legal blame is being shifted around after media entered the basement suite of B.C. terror suspects while they were in police custody. The media then documented and publicized the contents to news outlets across Canada. </p>

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27 Jun

So, The Barrie Advance outed its source — join a small crowd

<p><strong>By Edward Tubb</strong></p><p><em>The Barrie Advance</em> did something remarkably rare last week. And, it's earned the paper widespread praise.</p>

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28 May

Toronto Star publisher, Globe and Mail editor-in-chief on journalism and the Fords

<p><strong>By Eric Mark Do</strong></p><p>John Stackhouse and John Cruickshank stood behind their publications' recent coverage of the Fords in an <u><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/metromorning/episodes/2013/05/27/standing-by-the-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on CBC's Metro Morning</a></u> on Monday.</p>

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25 May

OPINION: Video, shmideo: reporting is about telling what you see and hear

<p><strong>By Ivor Shapiro</strong></p><div><p>In the beginning was the word from Gawker. And on the second day, there came a <em>Toronto Star</em> story, and evening became morning, and then a full-blown scandal was on every front page, every newscast, and lo, the <a href="http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?videoPackage=134643">Daily Show</a> saw that it was good, or at least funny.</p>

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23 May

Chequebook journalism: Should news outlets pay for the alleged video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine?

<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/Gawker.jpg" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Edward Tubb</strong></p><p>A major politician smokes crack-cocaine, and does it on video – even as a hypothetical, it’s difficult to think of a more tantalizing, or potentially damaging, news tip.</p>

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22 May

Opinion: The press owes the public more than repeating gossip on the alleged Ford video

<p><strong>By Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith Fullerton</strong></p><p>Much of the Canadian press has bet its credibility that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was indeed caught smoking crack on a smart-phone video that <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/05/16/toronto_mayor_rob_ford_in_crack_cocaine_video_scandal.html">two <em>Toronto Star </em>reporters</a> viewed in the back seat of car.</p>

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