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  • Rally against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) in Wellington, New Zealand. Photo courtesy Neil Ballantyne/CC BY 2.0.

    Anti-TPP day of action highlights threat to journalism

    It’s part of a massive campaign against the TPP in North America, led north of the border by CWA Canada.

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    CBC Ombudsman: A boycott is a boycott—The Greens and BDS

    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.”

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    Globe and Mail Public Editor: At The Globe, Dr. doesn’t just mean medical doctors

    The Globe style guide has clear rules for honorifics, but errors are sometimes repeated and compounded.

  • The Toronto Star’s public editor Kathy English issued an apology for the erroneous placement of a picture of a Toronto mosque accompanying a Canadian Press story. Screenshot by J-Source.

    News media’s rush to be first can have real consequences

    Is that what led to the decision to publish a problematic article citing a so-called ‘study’ of Canadian mosques and Islamic schools that was first presented to readers without any reality checks?

  • About 30 black women working in media stand for a historic photo at the corner of Queen Street and Dufferin Street in Toronto. Photo courtesy Lawrence Kerr.

    Behind the scenes of an historic photo

    This is the first time so many black women working in media have come together in the same space for one photo.

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    CBC Ombudsman: News, defined and refined

    The complainant asked a very good question: What’s appropriate for a newscast?

  • Is dispensing with online comments in the best interests of news organizations? Photo courtesy Marcie Casas/CC BY 2.0.

    When News Organizations Say “No Comment”

    While comments have become an all-too frequent swamp of racism, misogyny and general weirdness, dispensing with them may not be in the best interests of news organizations.

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    CBC Ombudsman: Commentary in News

    The complainant thought an interview segment with a CBC reporter was “pseudo-commentary” passing as news.

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    Toronto Star Public Editor: Star apologizes to Toronto-area mosque for publishing wrong and misleading photo

    The Baitul Islam mosque has no connection whatsoever to a questionable study linking Canadian mosques to extremism.

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    CBC Ombudsman: Balance and Opinion – Finding the sweet spot

    The complainant considered the an article about a twitter attack on the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign photo opinion and questioned the value and purpose of the story.

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