By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail Sports readers always have strong opinions about the most important story, what demands coverage and how prominent it should be. Football across the country, hockey of course, baseball across North America, U.K. cricket, women’s golf, especially Brooke Henderson: The list goes on. This week the call is…
Reporters and editors need to be critical when writing the words that readers focus on most of all.
Canada’s National NewsMedia Council affirms vital principles in dismissing complaint about New York Times climate change report.
The complainant thought it was wrong to refer to the result of the BDS resolution passed at the Green Party Convention as “supporting a movement boycotting Israel.”
The Globe style guide has clear rules for honorifics, but errors are sometimes repeated and compounded.
The complainant asked a very good question: What’s appropriate for a newscast?
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Geoffrey Pounder, questioned the value and journalistic purpose of an Ideas programme called “Contrarians”. He said it was dangerous and deceptive to give air time to two climate change deniers. Part of their remarks from a conference aired on the programme. He thought it violated all the principles…
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Will Dubitsky, thought characterising the 1995 Quebec referendum as the “abyss of ethnic nationalism” was Quebec-bashing and tarred all Quebec nationalists as xenophobes. It was a passing comment and an opinion expressed in context. One might not like or agree with the sentiment, but it doesn’t cross a…