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Toronto Star readers have spoken: The majority do not want to see swear words spelled out or more profanity in print, writes public editor Kathy English. 

If a brand can build its own audience on its own digital channels, one could argue it might not need a press release or even a journalist, writes Chris Hogg.

A digital journalist is still a journalist and must be doing the same work as a print journalist, writes Wayne MacPhail. So why is one employee paid less just because his or…

Mark Lever, and the company he works for, sees the future of the newspapers as hyperlocal. That is this kind of entrepreneurial thinking that will revolutionize and revitalize news media, says innovation…

Mindset, a guide for reporting on mental health, will be launched on April 24 in Toronto by the Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma and CBC News. The former’s president, Cliff…

CBC matters most in the small places, the ones many Canadians will never visit. It is a window on the outside world for those who live there. And a way of drawing…

Henry Blodget recently wrote that journalism has entered a golden age. Paul Benedetti and James R. Compton argue against the notion, calling it a baseless and insidious idea that masks the colonization…

The documentary, Silence of the Labs, provided many relevant facts and presented alternative perspectives about an important public policy issue so that Canadians could draw their own conclusions, writes CBC ombudsman Esther…

Photos do tell the truth, but not always the entire truth or the circumstances leading up to that photographed moment. That’s why photojournalists and editors have an obligation to contextualize photos better,…