What happens when you put dozens of public editors from around the world into the same room? Plenty of fascinating discussion on ethics, lessons learned, and the changing media landscape. We joined the ombuds in Montreal and live-blogged the event.
In case you missed it, or haven’t had a chance to read the full report yet, here are the top 10 takeaways from the recently released American Society of News Editors guide to crafting social media policies.
For all the fuss over presidential re-dos and digital fakery, Anne McNeilly writes that the tougher questions around truth in photojournalism are sometimes also the subtlest.
The 2002-vintage ethics code of the Canadian Association of Journalists is certainly due for a revision—for one thing, it makes no mention of the Internet. Now, a panel of the association’s ethics committee has produced a draft revision for public comment. Panel chair Shauna Snow-Capparelli explains.
Where is the line between the personal and the professional when journalists interact with social media? In its latest report, released April 12, the Canadian Association of Journalists' ethics advisory committee presents guidelines to help journalists think through their Facebook profiles, their "following" choices, and what to "like" and "not like" online. Reporters should build…
When the Toronto Star‘s new social media policy leaked, many journalists were tempted to brand it with a fail stamp. Not so fast, says Star public editor Kathy English. In her April 8th column English asks, “What’s fair on Facebook?”
Sometimes I wonder why I still subscribe to academic journals in print, but tonight is not such a time. True, sooner or later, every journal’s content will be available in library databases or in some cases even on the Web. And some do reach my shelves after months of neglect and a hurried ToC glance.…
CAJ Ethics Report – Journalists Seeking Political Office 2010-10-29 by jsource2007 Feb. 12, 2016 Correction: The original version of this PDF was missing the last few paragraphs of this document. We have uploaded the correct version. We apologize for this error.
Readers of the Toronto Star, inspired by the example of reporter Catherine Porter in sponsoring the education of three-year-old Lovely Avelus and of her cousin and friend, pitched in to send other Haitian students to school. The story is one of several told in “Lovely’s Haiti,” a Star series and multimedia project launched October 17.…
The Toronto Star’s public editor, Kathy English, has rapped her paper’s decision to omit a reference to the last baby born at an iconic hospital. The baby died shortly after birth, and the writer of a Page 1 feature about the baby’s closed obstetrics unit chose to gloss over that fact in order to spare…