Questions have been raised about one of Canada's most well-known columnists today after a blog post that described numerous instances where The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente possibly repurposed others’ writing and ideas without proper attribution became widely circulated.
September 6 marks the 17th anniversary of the death of Dudley George — an unarmed First Nations occupier shot and killed by an OPP officer at Ipperwash Provincial Park in Southwestern Ontario. But Maurice Switzer, the first Indigenous publisher of a daily paper in Canada and the current director of communications for the Union of Ontario Indians,…
When it comes to television journalism, what is considered "staging" and where do you draw the line? Daniel Viola won an AEJMC Award in Chicago earlier this month for this piece, which examines television staging of varying degrees — from recreating scenes, to asking sources to walk down a hallway or type at a computer — and…
Sometimes sources choose not to self-identify as 'he' or 'she'. Journalists must try to be sensitive to their wishes. The use of 'they' as a gender-neutral singular pronoun is one possibility. Katie Toth talks to journalists, editors and activists to explore this as an ethical option.
Toronto jail guard Andrea Roussel told her story about working even after her sex reassignment surgery. What was it like telling all to the Toronto Star's Peter Edwards. Roussel tells Romayne Smith Fullerton.
Ivor Shapiro may not know much about soccer, but he knows that some coverage of yesterday's Canada-U.S. women’s soccer semifinal fell short of the rigour and autonomy that, he believes, should define journalism.
When the Canadian Association of Journalists’ ethics advisory committee reluctantly took up the task of defining journalism, it struggled, at first, to find a way forward. Then, writes Patrick Brethour, it stumbled on a solution: define what journalism is not. The result: three simple tests, one tentative proposal.
It used to be that everyone knew, or thought they knew, what journalism was and who journalists were. Those were the days when journalists served as the gatekeepers to public information–an idea that now seems archaic. This report from the CAJ Ethics Advisory Committee is a response to questions considered by the committee surrounding the…
After more than four years overseeing the Ethics section of J-Source, Ivor Shapiro is stepping down. Editor-in-chief Janice Neil looks back at Shaprio's legacy as ethics editor.
In her first column as J-Source's new ethics editor, Romayne Smith Fullerton talks about what it means to 'do the right thing' in terms of journalistic ethics in a highly competitive and rapidly changing technological world.