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“Aim for transparency”: CAJ releases guidelines for personal activity online

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…
When it comes to journos, what’s fair on Facebook?

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…
A Guardian audit, an “ethics examiner”, a slugger’s coverage and other rewards of an hour with a journal.

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…
CAJ ethics report: Journalists seeking political office

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…
Reporter sponsored Haiti kids because “I am a human being first.”

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…
Truth hurts? Tough. Report it, says Toronto Star’s public editor

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…
Positive reference to Muslims requires balance? (Kristof)

A wave of American bigotry toward Muslims has reached new heights, according to New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, with the publication of a front-page apology in Maine’s Portland Press Herald.…
NY Times boss outlines accountability measures

The New York Times‘s various mechanisms for accountability to readers and subjects, include, according to its executive editor, not just the public editor but a managing editor and associate editor designated to…
Codes of 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…
Guess which Toronto newspaper….

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…