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Star public editor: Catherine Porter, Ezra Levant and journalism standards

What happened at the climate change protest point to a journalistic failure regarding accuracy and fairness.
“The Canadian broadcasting system is an act of political will.”

C.D. Howe Institute panel debates the future of public broadcasting.
How to recognize where print still rules

If Canada is truly a country of communities, making journalism sustainable in one community is unlikely to keep it so in another.
The agony and ecstasy of cycling in Richard Poplak’s “The Pain Principle”

This 2013 Walrus feature is not only a meditation on cycling, but also a snapshot of a cyclist’s life on the brink of breakthrough—just before a doping scandal.
Vivian Smith’s “Outsiders Still” a hard look at Canadian newspapers’ gender problem

Women, Smith writes, are still outsiders in the newspaper business, loving their jobs even as they think about moving on.
Canadians care about healthcare, so why don’t we see more health policy news coverage?

The stories that help us understand what influences public policy and the factors that determine our health status are left largely untold.
Coming to a screen near you: 27 cent-per-story journalism?

Some lessons learned from last month’s newspapers Canada Conference in Toronto.
Document Disposal Act a slippery slope when it comes to FOI

Under the Act, government employees are allowed to delete transitory records—but the definition of what constitutes such a record can seem ambiguous.
On profiling Bruce Arthur and Cathal Kelly for the Ryerson Review of Journalism

“Interviewing and meeting some of the writers and reporters I spent growing up reading was a privilege. I had to be critical but fair; opinionated but balanced.”
This week in FOI news: Canada Post, asbestos and Parliamentary time machines

Much ink was spilled about the Harper administration’s plan to retroactively deny access to long gun registry records and its muzzling of federal scientists.