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CBC Ombudsman: Quoting in Context – Editing interviews accurately

By Esther Enkin, CBC Ombudsman The complainant, Frank Ramagnano, President of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association, said he was unfairly quoted in a story about a female firefighter’s harassment and search for redress. He and other firefighters who wrote thought the story was unfair and condemned the whole fire service. There was no violation…
Globe and Mail Public Editor: Transparency with sources – and readers – is necessary

By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail Last week, The Globe and Mail ran a feature in the Life section in a series called “It Happened to Me.” It was an interview with comedian Cathy Jones about experiencing the symptoms of vaginal atrophy. The story included an interview with Dr. Vivien Brown, an assistant professor in…
Globe and Mail Public Editor: The call for more Paralympic coverage

By Sylvia Stead for The Globe and Mail Sports readers always have strong opinions about the most important story, what demands coverage and how prominent it should be. Football across the country, hockey of course, baseball across North America, U.K. cricket, women’s golf, especially Brooke Henderson: The list goes on. This week the call is…
Emails reveal City of Lloydminster staff pushed Record launch in advance of possible local media closures

By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor City of Lloydminster staff pushed ahead the launch of a city-run “online news source” to September 2016 to start building “credibility” should the city’s Postmedia-owned newspaper, the Lloydminster Meridian Booster, close. Emails obtained through an access to information request by J-Source shed light on the creation of the controversial Lloydminster Record,…
Media on the Move: September 22 to October 5

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Halifax’s The Coast is going Deep

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Alexander Quon There will soon be a new home for Canadian longform journalism—but Maritimers will notice a familiar name attached to it. Conceived by veteran journalists Matthew Halliday and Chelsea Murray, The Deep will be a joint venture between the pair and Halifax’s alternative weekly, The…
Newsrooms need to talk about informed consent when reporting on LGBTQ+ communities

This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Steph Wechsler In August, the CBC was named as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming that Farzam Dadashzadeh, an Iranian refugee now living in Vancouver, was outed in a 2007 documentary called Out in Iran: Inside Iran’s Secret Gay World. The film includes hidden camera footage…
Owning up to mistakes is a way to build trust with readers

By Kirk LaPointe If the academic literature suggests one-half of all stories contain a factual error, then it is clear that corrections should be in routine order. But when and how to do so is a debate within journalism, particularly in this iterative age of digital reporting when our craft updates and doesn’t always acknowledge…
Memo: David Skok joining Toronto Star as Associate Editor and Head of Editorial Strategy

Skok was most recently Managing Editor and Vice President, Digital, at the Boston Globe.
Film exposes role of Ugandan newspapers in persecution of LGBTQ community

Queer Ugandan filmmaker lives in fear for his life, but is determined to keep telling stories from one of the most dangerous countries in the world for the LGBT community.