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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…