The New York Times’ campaign to conquer Canada
Partly, it’s envy. But it’s also part of a plan to become the world’s newspaper of record. Continue Reading The New York Times’ campaign to conquer Canada
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CBC Ombudsman: Covering Syria
The complainant thought the Power & Politics treatment of events in Syria was too one-sided. Continue Reading CBC Ombudsman: Covering Syria
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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…