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    CBC Ombudsman: Did it cross a threshold of good practice when CBC reporters went into the home of the San Bernardino shooters?

    By Esther Enkin, for the CBC The complainant, Nicholas Doyle, said he was disgusted by the lack of journalistic integrity when reporters went into the home of the perpetrators of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. He said it added little insight and was an invasion of privacy. I found that CBC reporters were…

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    Globe public editor: Media hurting but still producing memorable journalism

    By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail It has been a bad week for journalism: 200 jobs lost in the broadcast and publishing wings of Rogers Media, and the closing of one of the nation’s oldest daily newspapers. The Guelph Mercury would have celebrated its 150th anniversary along with Canada next year, and its…

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    Toronto Star public editor: The Trump show – a Rob Ford rerun?

    [[{"fid":"5394","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":153,"width":124,"style":"width: 75px; height: 93px; float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]By Kathy English for the Toronto Star Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent, had a moment of déjà vu last weekend when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made the outrageous claim he could go shoot someone on New York’s Fifth Ave. and not lose…
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    Toronto Star public editor: It’s never too late to correct the historical record

    What did Pierre Trudeau actually say about Richard Nixon upon learning that the president had called him an ‘asshole’? Likely, not exactly what we think.

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    Toronto Star public editor: When you were the editor

    The almost 10,600 readers who played ‘You be the Editor’ agreed with the Star’s judgment calls in two-thirds of cases.

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    Globe public editor: The perils of relying on anonymous sources

    When the source is wrong, the journalist wears the error, Sylvia Stead writes.

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    Brunswick News ombudswoman: Complaining, explaining, understanding: 2015 in review

    Why Brunswick News ombudswoman wanted more complaints in 2015.

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    Why Saskatchewan is Canada’s black hole of policing information

    Regina has one of the most opaque police forces in Canada, according to Newspaper Canada’s annual Freedom of Information Audit.

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    Some advice for parents of a j-school student

    There’s a question we hear from parents and their teens considering enrolling in our program that reflects a broader perception in society: “Isn’t journalism dying?”

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    Star public editor: Catherine Porter, Ezra Levant and journalism standards

    What happened at the climate change protest point to a journalistic failure regarding accuracy and fairness.

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