With Newspapers Canada exploring the idea of establishing a national press council, J-Source takes a look at the Irish, Swedish and Danish models to see what Canada can learn from these international examples.
Star summer intern Marc Ellison worked on a data journalism project with a searchable database of banned licence plates. But he plagiarized some of three years old material from Daniel Dale, another Star reporter. His blog post explaining his actions has been called "courageous" for his willingness to admit how and why he went wrong.
York University says it has given a notice for libel earlier this week to the Toronto magazine and Katherine Laidlaw, the writer of the article alleging that its campus has become a “hunting ground for sexual predators.”
A video that allegedly shows the Mayor of Canada’s largest city smoking crack cocaine has generated headlines around the world. News of the video, which was not produced by the journalists, has also raised questions – some of them for the first time in Canada – on the way in which journalists gather and report…
The CBC says the payments it received from Parks Canada covered the costs of sharing travel and logistical expenses while covering the search for the Franklin expedition in the Arctic. But at no time, writes editor-in-chief and general manager Jennifer McGuire, did the CBC accept money in exchange for writing positive stories of the federal…
Don McCurdy, the executive director of the Ontario Press Council, explains why his organization called public hearings to examine recent news reporting on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his brother and what one can expect to happen at the hearings.
As newsrooms shrink, budgets contract and reporting jobs get axed, journalism is desperately looking for its next stream of funding. But what if that source of cash flow is from the Canadian government? That ethical quandary appeared to fly under the radar at many news organizations when they received lucrative grants from the Canadian International…
"Should a newsroom control what reporters are tweeting from their personal accounts? Should factually incorrect posts or tweets be deleted? How do you ensure the content from social media is original and unaltered?"
Legal blame is being shifted around after media entered the basement suite of B.C. terror suspects while they were in police custody. The media then documented and publicized the contents to news outlets across Canada.
News organizations rarely reveal the names of confidential sources, but when it happens it's usually because the identity of the source is bigger than the story itself. On the heels of The Barrie Advance outing the PMO for sending out information on Justin Trudeau to news organizations, Edward Tubb looks at other situations where journalists or news…