Category / Ethics

Many journalism organizations offer ethics guidelines, including the Canadian Association of Journalists, which has both a general statement of principles for ethical journalism and an expanded ethics guidelines.  Some other journalist' codes of…

Not-a-lot-of-skill-testing question: which “local newspaper” does the Toronto Star mean when it reports: “Two and a half hours earlier, Ford was hosting a news conference to explain why it appeared he had…

In which Ivor Shapiro, an old-dog reporter who just happens to be J-Source's Ethics editor, explains how he learned, first-hand, that the new tricks of real-time reporting can be perilous. As a…

CAJ Ethics Report – Reposting and Retweeting by jsource2007

After nine years in court, the National Post has been ordered to hand over its Shawinigate document in a Supreme Court ruling that offers mixed results for the protection of sources. The…

A week after ProPublica accepts one of journalism’s top prizes for a story funded by foundations and universities, Cecil Rosner examines the growing trend of non-profit, non-partisan investigative journalism. Will it be…

Former board member Deborah Campbell, one of many supporters of the Canadian Association of Journalists who abandoned it in 2004-2005, explains why she left — and why she thinks the CAJ cannot move…

Conflict photographers explain their thinking behind their iconic shots in “The Shooting War,”  a powerful photographic essay on the Foreign Policy web site.

Broadcasters in Quebec and Australia are in hot water for on-air references to the sexual orientation of Olympic figure skaters. In Canada, a gay rights group wants a public apology from French-language…

How well did social media and journalism perform when some twit reported that Canadian music icon Gordon Lightfoot had died? Not so well, says Dale Bass.