The Ontario Press Council dismissed complaints about the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail’s stories on the Fords, saying the papers reported in a fair and ethical manner. Meanhwile, Toronto councillor Doug Ford dismissed the Press Council’s decisions as the work of "a bunch of old cronies."
Wayne Thibodeau has been named the news editor of The Guardian. He replaces Bill McGuire, who was appointed opinion/editorial editor following Roseanne Macdonald’s retirement.
A complainant said The National’s political affairs panel, At Issue, lacked balance. He though that the panelists were supporters of the Liberal and Conservative parties and that there needed to be someone to speak for the NDP. But CBC's ombudsman Esther Enkin found that the panelists were non-partisan, that the discussions were not based on…
Dans le cadre des Rencontres de La Presse, cinq journalistes d’enquête du quotidien montréalais sont montés sur la scène de l’Astral pour parler de leur métier. Devant une salle bondée, ils ont raconté l’excitation qui les anime et la joie qu’ils ressentent lorsqu’ils publient leur histoire après des mois d’enquête, mais également leurs peurs et…
With the power to publish now in the palms of million of hands, what does it mean for the relationship between journalists and the brands whose news they once had a near-monopoly on distribution? And with more brands taking advantage of this fact and moving to tell their own stories and establish their brands as…
CBC is expanding its local coverage with new, one-hour programs in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa.
Why does the Toronto Star publish opinion columns that readers judge to be outrageous, offensive, inappropriate? Columnists express their own views, not the views of the Star, which are expressed on its editorial pages, writes public editor Kathy English. They can and often do express opinions the Star does not agree with.
Once you raise the issue that many in the media haven’t mentioned John Greyson’s orientation for “fear it would go worse for him,” as Margaret Wente wrote), The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead says you need to very explicitly answer that question about why you have chosen to mention his orientation.
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador apologized for a column written by host John Furlong, which likened some Innu from the Natuashish community to zombies, calling them "expressionless, silent, brooding, uncommunicative." Denise Wilson, managing director of CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, called the column a "mistake" in an editor's note.
Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, will give a talk at Carleton University titled: "So you want to know the future of news? Ask the Audience." Rosenstiel is co-author of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect and the newly-released The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles…