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Globe and Mail Public Editor: No reason to give equal time to naturopathy believers

Sylvia Stead writes: To do so would be a false journalistic balance and could endanger public
The good and bad of mobile, social and vertical news

Looking forward to the future of news, Kate Tenenhouse finds it is mobile, social…and vertical.
A time to embrace uncertainty

Ivor Shapiro’s closing remarks at the Journalism Transformations colloquium at Ryerson University on April 28, 2016.
‘Spotlight’ on homeless deaths

Toronto Star investigative journalism has had a positive impact on Toronto’s homeless.
Toronto Star public editor: Accuracy is the foundation of trust

No surprises here: A new study on what makes audiences trust media ranks accuracy as vital.
After a 40-year career, I’m saying goodbye to newspapers

Toronto Star sports reporter Curtis Rush reflects on his career after taking buyout.
Editor’s note: J-Source comes of age

Bruce Gillespie looks back on his three-year term as J-Source’s editor-in-chief.
Globe and Mail Public Editor: Prose must be attributed

By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail A Media Culpa blog was forwarded to me by a reader last night about an issue in Saturday’s Margaret Wente column. The blog by Carol Wainio noted…
Save Us from Depression: Immigrant Journalist

By Israr Kasana for New Canadian Media I was confident I was not being naïve or a ninnyhammer when I decided to relocate as a family to North America yet again, this time…
CBC Ombudsman: Tweets in Stories: No big deal

By Esther Enkin for the CBC The complainant, Lawrence Wilson, thought reproducing the graphic image of a tweet from a politician was like providing free political advertising. He thought it made it…