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In Indigenous reporting, what has changed since Ipperwash?

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…
The ethics of staging

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,…
Gender challenge: is ‘they’ the new s/he?

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…
An inside look: What it’s like to tell your story after sex reassignment surgery

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. …
‘We wuz robbed’ journalism not good enough after Olympic soccer drama

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.…
What is Journalism? The CAJ’s ethics committee takes a stab at definition

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 …
What is journalism?

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…
Turning the page: saying farewell and hello to changing ethics editors

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.…
J-Source’s new ethics editor on doing the right thing

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.…
Media ethics as activism

The current changes in journalism have brought many new ethical challenges, but they’re also changing the idea of ethics itself, according to Stephen J. A. Ward. …