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Journalists should watch out for vague cliches and dig for more details, The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.

Mindset is an important new guide to improving reporting and writing about mental health. It should be within easy reach in all newsrooms, writes Toronto Star public editor Kathy English. 

Today, data metrics has replaced editorial instinct, and there are very few questions that remain unanswered about what device readers are choosing or how engaged they with the journalistic content. Except for what is perhaps the biggest question of all: what’s the impact of all this data mining on the quality of journalism? 

One of the ways to mitigate a potential conflict is to declare it. The journalistic policy on commentators and on interviewees states that the audience should know important affiliations held by a program participant so the audience will be able to put a speaker’s remarks in context. 

 Journalists must be careful not to judge alleged criminals (or victims) with the language they use. That means asking themselves whether their words are revelatory to the reader, or are tilting the facts, writes The Globe and Mail's public editor Sylvia Stead.

Interest in the eagerly awaited annual blooming of the High Park cherry trees is high within the newsroom, so much so that a number of editors simply assumed a photo had captured the peak bloom that lasts only a few precious days each year. Of course, there are far more serious errors in journalism than this…

The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma has unveiled an excellent guide on reporting on mental health that offers great advice to all working journalists.

The younger generation is obsessed with sharing everything that happens around them on social media. Recently, this over-sharing habit has sparked some debate when it involved traumatic events. Should media outlets be posting such photos?

CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin said The National's context was clear enough on a segment about Ukraine, but the column was amended to clarify that the settlements are in violation of international law.

CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin said Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, overstated the conclusion of a study when he said second-hand smoke does not cause lung cancer.