Star public editor: Reporting responsibly in real time during the Ottawa attack
When terror gripped Ottawa last week, Star journalists faced the challenge of reporting the news as it happened in an atmosphere of fear and chaos.
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Star public editor: Reporting responsibly in real time during the Ottawa attack
When our nation’s capital is under attack, and chaos and confusion rule, how do journalists separate rumour from reality in order to report responsibly in real time?
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Globe public editor: More effort needed to run photos of women
While there will always be photos of political and business leaders, who more often are men, editors need to make an effort to use more pictures of women and visible-minority members, writes public editor Sylvia Stead.
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CBC ombudsman: On matters of controversy represent both sides whenever possible
The Executive Director of HonestReporting Canada, Mike Fegelman, complained that CBC reported the shelling of the Gaza power plant by Israeli forces as a proven fact. He pointed to Israeli military statements denying responsibility. One online story was edited to reflect that fact, but another one, published some time later, was not. The inconsistency is…
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Brunswick News ombudswoman: How a newspaper can be both opinionated and neutral
The most basic notion to explain how a newspaper can properly be both neutral and opinionated is to understand that structurally newspapers have two distinct components.
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Ombudsman: CBC News can’t alter the record
The complainant wanted CBC News online to take down an accurate story involving him and his wife, who were charged with forging transit passes in Vancouver three years ago.
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The Unknowable Country: Why journalists need more access to BC’s mining data
B.C. is one of the country's biggest mineral producers. But compared to Americans, British Columbians have very little information about the safety of that activity. And that means journalists, activists and citizens have little power to stop mining problems before they become mining disasters.
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Star public editor: Hack Attack a must-read for journalists
Journalist Nick Davies’ new book is a primer on great reporting and a morality tale about unethical journalism.
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Public editor: Why some words have accents in the Globe and others don’t
The Globe’s policy is to use accents on French names and words but not on words in other languages. The belief is that Canadian editors should know the correct accents for French words but cannot be expected to know the accents for other languages.
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5 books to whet journalism students’ appetites
Once you earn that hard-won job, you will be too busy doing journalism to read or even think deeply about capital-J journalism. Books Editor Dan Rowe recommends five books that may or may not appear one of your syllabi, but that you should read anyway.