CBC ombudsman: How deep do you go?
A complainant was dissatisifed with the amount of reporting on a fundraising effort.
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CBC ombudsman: Maintaining the record vs the right to be forgotten
Like most media organizations, CBC News has a policy that it is only in exceptional circumstances that a story is removed from the web site. The rationale is that it can distort the public record when material is selectively deleted, writes CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin.
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Globe public editor: One convicted journalist is guilty, others are not
Two recent high-profile court cases involving journalists are likely to evoke quite different responses from you as a reader, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.
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Globe public editor: Headlines are hard to write, but they must be precise
The Middle East is a complex, complicated and very sensitive part of the world for news coverage. So news media must be careful to get the facts right and be cognizant of balance at all times, writes the Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.
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CBC ombudsman: Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t cause killing
The complainant, Marke Kilkie, felt that a news story about mass killer Elliot Rodger made it sound that the fact he had Asperger’s Syndrome was partly a cause for his murder spree. In the wake of these horrible events, the reporting should be much more careful about the use of these details about mental and…
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How to keep community journalism strong
If local media are such an integral part of small and rural communities, why aren't communities supporting them? Mike Davies talks to western Canadian news leaders about community journalism.
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Brunswick News ombudswoman: Are stories of tragedy intrusive or cathartic?
When tragedy occurs, journalists can’t step back. They should find and tell the stories, while making empathy and the interests of the community their compass, writes Brunswick News ombudswoman Patricia Graham.
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CBC ombudsman: Public deserves to know when they are going to have to see or hear shocking images
The lack of warning for the use of graphi images in a CBC Calgary story was bad judgement, writes ombudsman Esther Enkin.
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Is it any surprise the Globe backed Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives in the recent election?
Did the Globe’s editor-in-chief really overrule his editorial board’s election endorsement? Not likely, writes former long-time staffer Michael Valpy.
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Star public editor: Diversity is right course
On most days the Toronto Star falls short of producing a newspaper and website that look like the Toronto we see when we walk our streets, says public editor Kathy English.