Archive
23 Oct

The legal watchdogs

FeatureAs John Jaffey of the Ryerson Review of Journalism discovered, it takes a special breed of lawyer to deliver us from libel.

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23 Oct

Paper-thin protection

FeatureThe law offers little protection for journalists who want to keep sources confidential. But as Carly Baxter reports in the Ryerson Review of Journalism, there are some things you can […]

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22 Oct

Protecting sources 101

No blanket protection for sources Canada’s courts do not give journalists an absolute right to promise confidentiality to a source. Nor does Canada have the shield laws that many U.S. […]

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22 Oct

Levelling with our sources

By Dean JobbThe furore over Hamilton Spectator reporter Ken Peters’ contempt conviction for refusing to betray a source raises two crucial questions for all of us. Do Canadian journalists have […]

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20 Oct

Judge blocks bid to expose Citizen source

NewsAn Ontario judge has struckdown laws that empowered the RCMP to raid the home of Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O’Neill, in a bid to expose the source of a leak […]

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5 Oct

Free expression … within limits

By Dean Jobb As the debate raged over publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in February 2006, about 100 students gathered at the fortress-like administration building at Saint Mary’s University […]

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28 Aug

The struggle for press freedom: A history

The creation of a Western free press was the work of centuries, starting roughly in the 1600s. Only by the end of the 19th century would a free press, along […]

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24 Aug

Good news for journalists — and their sources

By Dean Jobb January 21, 2004, will be remembered as both a good day and a bad day for journalists, the sources they rely on to inform the public, and […]

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13 Dec

Privacy laws could jeopardize iconic photos in future

The iconic photographs that help define history could be under threat from a new British privacy law, a media lawyer warns. Full report.

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