Category / Ethics
-
CBC Ombudsman: Sound and colour is information, too
In a radio piece out of Iran, reporter Derek Stoffel used the image of people arriving in a horse drawn carriage at the Grand Bazaar in Tehran as a scene setter about…
-
CBC Ombudsman: A proposed war memorial and conflict of interest
The complainant questioned the status of Rex Murphy and Peter Mansbridge as honorary patrons of the “Mother Canada” war memorial proposed for Cape Breton
-
Four things every journalist should know before writing about autism
Every week a new study on autism seems to surface, and too often there are errors or critical omissions in some of the media coverage on the topic.
-
National Press Council set to launch in September
This fall, British Columbia, Ontario and Atlantic Canada’s press councils will amalgamate into a national body.
-
On newsroom sexism and the Canadaland report
If advocating for women’s equality in newsrooms is the goal, Brown’s reporting falls short of it.
-
A look at the ethically complex world of native advertising
Journalism’s new revenue saviour may come at the cost of long-held ethical standards.
-
Case Studies Collection: The Ethics of Unplanned Interviews
The fifth estate‘s dramatic “jump” footage spotlighted an innocent man’s jailing. But was it fair to air it?
-
Case Studies Collection: Reporting on epidemics
How a health reporter weighed the risks of a hot-zone assignment in the early days of the 2014 ebola outbreak.
-
Bell won’t release internal report on journalistic independence at CTV
An internal report on the journalistic independence at CTV News will not be made public, says the head of Bell Media’s parent company BCE Inc.
-
Press Council investigates journalists blocking reader on Twitter
In the first case of its kind, the Quebec Press Council is investigating a complaint against two La Presse columnists for blocking a reader on Twitter.