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The Globe and Mail's public editor explains to readers what they can expect from the Ontario press council hearings next week and why  she defends the use of anonymous sources in the story at the root of the complaint. 

There should always be attribution for news items, even if those pieces were rewritten and in some cases included personal reflections, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.

Getting names right is the "bedrock" measure of accuracy in journalism. When we err, we must correct, writes the Toronto Star's public editor Kathy English