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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 uploaded the correct version. We apologize for this… -
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 Haitian students to school. The story is one… -
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 the writer of a Page 1 feature about… -
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. The newspaper apologized for “not offering balance” to… -
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 watch over standards. They and a deputy managing… -
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 conduct include:Society of Professional Journalists… -
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 not told the truth to a local… -
How do you say mea culpa, 140 characters at a time?
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 penance for the journalist's first sin of not… -
McIntosh decision: cork the champagne, but uncap a beer
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 Canadian Press reported the decision means journalists have…
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