Not fake news
Mainstream media can still effect social change. Continue Reading Not fake news
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CBC Ombudsman: Fair Edits – What gets published has to reflect what happened
The complainant was present in the House of Commons 35 years ago when a female MP got up to ask a question about violence against women. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Fair Edits – What gets published has to reflect what happened
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What the failure of Star Touch teaches us about a media bailout
Star Touch is exactly why the feds need to leave the news business to its death throes. Continue Reading What the failure of Star Touch teaches us about a media bailout
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It’s time to start The Conversation in Canada
By Mary-Lynn Young and Alfred Hermida for The Conversation Canada The launch of The Conversation Canada is an opportunity to contribute to the quality of explanatory journalism in this country — and the promise such journalism holds for democratic engagement, informed policy and media innovation. It brings academics and experienced journalists together to share timely analysis and… -
CBC Ombudsman: The “f” word — A threshold for its use in news
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Curtis Hopkins, thought swearing on an online video of an eyewitness recording of a bus billowing smoke was in violation of policy. The video was a powerful account of a breaking news story, although the swearing was not critical to the understanding of the story. Since the crew…
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Globe and Mail Public Editor: Does an idiom have a ‘best before’ date?
By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail Our language doesn’t stay still. It adapts to a changing world, gains new terms, drops old ones and changes course when a term or phrase is widely acknowledged as hurtful and derogatory. One of those phrases appeared in the big headline on the front page of the… -
Globe and Mail Public Editor: Overuse of term ‘populism’ can be misleading
By Sylvia Stead, Globe and Mail Public Editor Here’s a word that has surged in popularity in the last year. It has been used to describe Donald Trump’s ascendancy, the majority vote on Brexit and the second-place showing of Marine Le Pen in this month’s French presidential election. I’ve seen business articles in The Globe… -
Toronto Star Public Editor: Reader trust and responsible reporting with anonymous sources
By Kathy English, Toronto Star Public Editor An important reader question about trust in the Star: “I am curious what steps a journalist might take to verify what they are told by a confidential source. I can understand the need for confidential sources in the media, but, as a reader I generally put a little less faith… -
Are Canadians really falling for fake news?
By Christopher Waddell, Publisher I have been a grocery shopper for about 40 years. During that time in checkout lines I have read about cars that can run on water that the oil industry keeps secret from us, the pregnancies and affairs of hundreds of politicians and celebrities, regular UFO invasions of the earth hushed… -
CBC Ombudsman: Beware of generalizations
By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Mr. Marco Mura, objected to the characterization of the government of Turkey as “fundamentalist.” I agree that the term is too broad to be accurate in this context. Adjectives are seldom a news writer’s friend. COMPLAINT On December 7, 2016, The World at Six ran a feature about…