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QUESTION: What you can do when long-awaited government documents land with more blacked out parts than real content? Andrew McIntosh, a veteran journalist who has written for The National Post, The Globe and Mail and The Ottawa Citizen, offers ten tips in response.
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Ask a Mentor provides answers to practical questions about the craft. Our mentors will steadily expand this fount of tips, traps and shortcuts on the trail to truth. Submit your question and we'll pass it on to a mentor for answering. Robert Cribb is an investigative reporter and deputy investigations editor at the Toronto Star, past president of the Canadian Association of Journalists and current president of the CAJ Educational Foundation. He is also a lecturer at Ryerson University and co-author of Digging Deeper: A Canadian Reporter's Research Guide.
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